Rowling: "Newt walks into a society he doesn't really understand."
A new trailer for Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was released on June 23rd. Rowling narrates it, saying:My heroes are always people who feel themselves to be set apart, stigmatized,...
View ArticleDebbie--have you seen John Flanagan's THE GHOSTFACES?
A reader wrote to ask me if I've seen John Flanagan's The Ghostfaces. I haven't, so am adding it to the "Debbie--have you seen" series.Here's the synopsis:From John Flanagan, author of the worldwide...
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Hi! This is my first blog post as an editor of AICL. I'm happy to be here. -- JeanDebbie and I are working on a book chapter, and my focus has been picture books on the Indian boarding schools. That’s...
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Joseph Marshall's Acceptance Speech for the 2016 American Indian Youth...
Photo courtesy of Aaron LaFromboiseAmerican Indians in Children's Literature is pleased to bring you Joseph Marshall III's acceptance speech. He won the 2016 American Indian Youth Literature Award,...
View ArticleDebbie--have you seen Jean Craighead George's THE TALKING EARTH?
A librarian wrote to ask me about Jean Craighead George's The Talking Earth. Published in 1983 by HarperCollins, it is available in Spanish and Catalan. It is available as an audiobook, too. Most...
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Tim Tingle's Acceptance Speech for the 2016 American Indian Youth Literature...
American Indians in Children's Literature is pleased to bring you Tim Tingle's acceptance speech. He won the 2016 American Indian Youth Literature Award, young adult category, for The House of Purple...
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Reading While White review's Lane Smith's THERE IS A TRIBE OF KIDS
Several months ago I saw the cover of Lane Smith's There Is a Tribe of Kids and wondered about his use of the word tribe. Most people see the word "tribe" and think of a group of people who they view...
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Lane Smith's new picture book: There Is a TRIBE of KIDS (plus a response to...
I love word play. Lane Smith's book is getting a lot of love for its word play, but I'm tagging his book as Not Recommended.Here's the cover of his new book, There Is a Tribe of Kids. The blue creature...
View ArticleDebbie--have you seen Joan Crate's BLACK APPLE?
A reader writes to ask if I've seen Joan Crate's Black Apple. Published in March of 2016 by Simon and Schuster, here's the synopsis:A dramatic and lyrical coming-of-age novel about a young Blackfoot...
View ArticleDebbie--have you seen Lane Smith's AUGIE HOBBLE?
A reader who saw my review of Lane Smith's There Is a Tribe of Kids wrote to ask if I've read his Return to Augie Hobble. It got starred reviews from Booklist, and Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus......
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State of Oklahoma, 2005, Resolution Commending Tim Tingle
Amongst Tim Tingle's many books is Walking the Choctaw Road. Parts of it are heartrending.First published in 2003 by Cinco Puntos Press, it consists of twelve stories, some of which evolved into his...
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Does Lane Smith's RETURN TO AUGIE HOBBLE tell us anything about his THERE IS...
A reader who was following the conversations about Lane Smith's There Is A Tribe of Kids wrote to ask me if I'd read his Return to Augie Hobble. Here's the synopsis:Augie Hobble lives in a fairy...
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Debbie--have you seen LITTLE WHALE by Roy A. Peratrovich, Jr.?
This morning as I started to read the Summer 2016 issue of Children & Libraries a book cover caught my eye (that's it, to the right). Inside the front cover is a page of new books for children and...
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Debbie--have you seen BELLA BELLA by Jonathan London?
A reader writes to ask if I've seen Bella Bella by Jonathan London, illustrations by Sean London (don't know if there is a relationship between the author and illustrator). Bella Bella came out in...
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John Smelcer's STEALING INDIANS
John Smelcer's Stealing Indians is due out in August of this year (2016) from Leapfrog Press. Having read it, I'll start by saying that I do not recommend it. Neither does Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author...
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Indigenous Comic Con! November 18 to 20 in Albuquerque
In children's and YA literature, we know that comics and graphic novels are a growth area. We know that there's momentum, too, to provide children and teens with work by Native people and people of...
View ArticleDebbie--have you seen THE DRAGON HAMMER by Tony Daniel?
A reader wrote to ask if I've seen Tony Daniel's The Dragon Hammer. Here's excerpts from the review from Publisher's Weekly. In the excerpt I've highlighted a passage...Beast-men, bitter feuds, and...
View ArticleWhen We Was Fierce + A Birthday Cake for George Washington + A Fine Dessert...
It has been a landmark year in children's literature. I don't mean the calendar year of 2016. I mean the year marked by August 4th, 2015 and August 4th, 2016, where depictions of African Americans in...
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Debbie--have you seen MacMillan & Kirker's MULTICULTURAL STORYTIME MAGIC?
A reader wrote to ask me if I've seen Kathy MacMillan and Christine Kirker's Multicultural Storytime Magic. Published in 2012 by ALA Editions, here's the description:Storytime audiences grow ever more...
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Ashley Hope Perez's OUT OF DARKNESS
Last year, Ashley Hope Perez's Out of Darkness got a lot of buzz in my networks. Here's the synopsis:"This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?" New...
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