Native American Literary Symposium's 2018 "Welcome" Includes Statement about...
In 2001, a group of Native writers organized as the Native American Literary Symposium (NALS). As I write, it is in its second day of its 2018 symposium. The final program includes a Welcome, that has...
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Not recommended: A CONSPIRACY OF STARS by Olivia A. Coles
I'll start with this: I do not recommend A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Coles.Published in 2018 by Katherine Tegan Books (an imprint of HarperCollins), there is a sequel in the works. Here's the...
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Recommended! With joy! BOWWOW POWWOW, written by Brenda J. Child, translated...
Due out on May 1 of 2018 is an absolutely terrific book, Bowwow Powwow written by Brenda J. Child (Red Lake Ojibwe). The story she tells was translated into Ojibwe by Gordon Jourdain (Lac La Croix...
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Not recommended: ORPHAN TRAIN GIRL by Christina Baker Kline
In 2013, Christina Baker Kline’s Orphan Train was published. In 2017, a young readers’ edition came out. Here’s the description:This young readers’ edition of Christina Baker Kline’s #1 New York Times...
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What's On Your Shelves? (A workshop, led by Debbie Reese)
I've been spending the last week days preparing for my visit to Eureka, California, where I'll work with school, public, and tribal librarians on collection development! Hope you can come! Thank you,...
View ArticleDebbie--have you seen BLOOD MOON: AN AMERICAN EPIC OF WAR AND SPLENDOR IN THE...
A reader wrote to ask if I've read John Sedgwick's Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation. It isn't for children or young adults, but, the reader notes, some people...
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Two Cool Tweets (about me)
At the Kweli Conference in NYC on April 6-7, Ibi Zoboi spoke on a panel about how she wanted to "Debbie Reese" a book about Haiti. I saw that just at the moment when I was taking my highlighter to a...
View ArticleA reader wrote to me to ask about a line in DEAR MARTIN, by Nic Stone
Have you read Nic Stone's Dear Martin? Published in 2017 by Random House, it got favorable reviews, including a starred review from Booklist.I haven't read it yet, but last week, I got an email from a...
View ArticleDebbie--have you seen Marie Lu's "The Journey" in A TYRANNY OF PETTICOATS?
A Native reader wrote to ask me about Marie Lu's "The Journey" in A Tyranny of Petticoats"published by Candlewick Press in 2016, and edited by Jessica Spotswood. The reader said:There aren't any Alaska...
View ArticleTwitter Thread on Justina Ireland's DREAD NATION
A blog post with my analysis of the Native content in Justina Ireland's Dread Nation is in process. For now, here's a record of the tweets I sent out on Twitter. The first one went out on the morning...
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Alia Jones Reviews nipêhon/I Wait, by Caitlin Dale Nicholson and Leona...
Eds note: AICL is pleased to share this review of nipêhon/I Wait. The review is by Alia Jones. Her blog is Read It Real Good. ****nipêhon/I Wait by Caitlin Dale Nicholson and Leona Morin-Neilson is a...
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Debbie--have you seen JOURNEY ON A RUNAWAY TRAIN (BOXCAR CHILDREN)?
A reader wrote to ask me if I've seen Journey on a Runaway Train, which is book one in a new set of books about the Boxcar Children. That series was created by Gertrude Chandler Warner. Journey on a...
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Not Recommended: THE GREAT BIG BOOK OF FAMILIES by Hoffman and Asquith
A reader wrote to ask if I had seen The Great Big Book of Families by Mary Hoffman and Ros Asquith. Published in 2011 by Dial, the page of interest to anyone who pays attention to the ways that...
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Debbie--have you seen HOW RAVEN GOT HIS CROOKED NOSE, by Barbara and Ethan...
Most emails I get are from people who see things of concern (like stereotypes) in a children or young adult book. Once in a while I get an email from someone who enthusiastically talks about a book....
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: Eric Gansworth's GIVE ME SOME TRUTH
The title of Eric Gansworth's new book is Give Me Some Truth. As I read about Carson and Maggi, I marked one page after another. The truths in their lives made me laugh and made me cringe, too!There...
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Not recommended: INTO THE WOODS (book one in the "Bigfoot Boy" series of...
A reader wrote to ask if I've seen the Bigfoot Boy series of graphic novels by J. Torres, illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks.The first one Into the Woods came out in 2012 from Kids Can Press. Here's the...
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Debbie Reese's Twitter Threads about Nora Raleigh Baskin's Ted Talk
On May 21, 2018, writer Nora Raleigh Baskin did a Tedtalk. I was tagged by the person who loaded the talk to YouTube.The text of the tweet is this:"Please watch @noraraleighB's @Tedx talk given at my...
View ArticlePBS's GREAT AMERICAN READ has books with stereotypes of Native ppl....
PBS did a "Great American Read" project recently. Their list of 100 most-loved books doesn't have a single Native writer on it.Stereotypes of Native people are in some of those books... But the list...
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Update to AICL's Review of THE TRUE MEANING OF SMEKDAY by Adam Rex
On February 12, 2015, I reviewed The True Meaning of Smekday, by Adam Rex. On May 7, I reviewed the sequel, Smek For President. On February 14 of 2018, Adam Rex said on Twitter:Yesterday I posted a...
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A #ChangeTheName Moment: the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award is now the Children's...
On Saturday afternoon, June 23, 2018, the executive board of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) voted to change the name of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. The change took place...
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