Reviewed by Jean Mendoza Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: How I wish we could see a series like Mothers of Xsan for every part of the continent: local ecosystems from Indigenous perspectives! Hetxw’ms Gyetxw, Natasha Donovan, and Highwater Press have come up with a set of richly illustrated informational books about essential animal inhabitants of […]
Spíləx̣m: A Weaving of Recovery, Resilience, and Resurgence
Reviewed by Debbie Reese Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: Today’s Short and Sweet Rec is for Nicola I. Campbell’s memoir, Spílexm: A Weaving of Recovery, Resilience, and Resurgence. I’ll begin with the description from the publisher’s site: If the hurt and grief we carry is a woven blanket, it is time to weave ourselves anew. In […]
The Grizzly Mother and The Sockeye Mother
Reviewed by Debbie Reese Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: Teachers! Get The Grizzly Mother for your classroom — and ask your librarian to get in on the library shelves, too! Written by Hetxw’ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson) and illustrated by Natasha Donovan, it will be released on September 1, 2019, from […]
A Girl Called Echo
Reviewed by Jean Mendoza Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: Apple, Echo, and the Importance of “More Than One Book” Two Native high school girls, two unique stories about not fitting in, and about trying to make sense of Indigenous heritage/ancestry when something has disrupted their place in a Native community…. Most regular […]
When We Were Alone
Reviewed by Debbie Reese Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: When We Were Alone is one of those books that brought forth a lot of emotion as I read it. There were sighs of sadness for what Native people experienced at boarding schools, and sighs of—I don’t know, love, maybe—for our perseverance through it […]
Nimoshom and His Bus
Reviewed by Debbie Reese Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: Several people wrote to tell me about Nimoshom and His Bus. Due out in 2018 from Highwater Press, the story is by Penny M. Thomas (Cree-Ojibway background), with illustrations by Karen Hibbard. Books like Nimoshom and His Bus provide Native children with mirrors that non-Native children find in […]