Reviewed by Allie Jane Bruce Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: At the outset of Laura Ingalls Is Ruining My Life, twelve-year-old Charlotte makes it clear that she finds her mom’s obsession with Laura Ingalls irritating. Anytime Mom or Rose (Charlotte’s younger sister) reference the Little House books or Laura Ingalls, Charlotte’s reaction is somewhere in […]
Wild Eggs: A Tale of Arctic Egg Collecting
Reviewed by Jean Mendoza Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: Wild Eggs: A Tale of Arctic Egg Collecting opens with a little girl stepping off a bush plane, holding a stuffed polar bear. Akuluk and her mother have come from Yellowknife to a remote part of Nunavut. She is about to meet her maternal grandparents […]
Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection – Volume 2
Reviewed by Debbie Reese Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: Edited by Hope Nicholson, Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Volume 2 has stories from several people who you may know from previous AICL reviews of their work. In particular, I’m thinking of Richard Van Camp. Some of you may recall that he is Tlicho Dene from […]
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 […]
The Water Walker
Reviewed by Debbie Reese Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: Often, people write to ask me for books about Native people who are activists, or who might be involved in, or organizing, actions of some kind to protect their nations or homelands. Joanne Robertson’s book is one I’m happy to recommend. Robertson’s The Water Walker, published […]
Cheyenne Again
Reviewed by: Jean Mendoza Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: Last year, Debbie and I analyzed several picture books about children in Indian boarding school for a book chapter. We intentionally left out of our chapter a fairly popular 1993 book, Cheyenne Again, by European-American writer Eve Bunting, illustrated by Dine artist Irving Toddy. I recently […]
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