Alexie and Gayle Ross on "Best of our Knowledge"

When Ten Little Indians came out in 2004, Alexie did an interview with Wisconsin's Public Radio program "To the Best of our Knowle...

Alexie on Charlie Rose, 1998

Knowing teachers spend a fair amount of time developing background to teach certain novels, I'm providing this interview of Sherman Alex...

Interview with Richard Van Camp

More than once on this blog, I've written about Richard Van Camp's books for children and young adults. Two are picture books: A Man...

"I" is for Inclusion

At their website, the American Indian Library Association recently uploaded "I is for Inclusion." Prepared by Naomi Caldwell, Ga...

Cynthia Leitich Smith: LOC Webcast

Wondering if there were any videos on-line of Cynthia Leitich Smith, I did a bit of web searching and found one! In 2002, she was speaking a...

Alexie on YouTube re DIARY

This is a must-view clip on YouTube. It was filmed November 3rd, when Alexie was in Texas for the Texas Book Festival. He was on a panel of ...

A Native Astronaut & A Native Writer

I imagine the man who drive my cab in NYC Thursday night would be surprised to know that Commander John Herrington, who flew on the space sh...

Where is your copy of THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE?

That isn’t a trick question, but it is an important one. Where does your library shelve its copy of Forrest (Asa) Carter’s The Education of ...

Thanksgiving in YA National Book Award

Sherman Alexie won the National Book Award last night, for his book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian . There's a lot in h...

"read" in Native Languages

Tulsa City-County Library has given permission for people to use this graphic for educational, non-commercial purposes. If you have question...

Good books about Thanksgiving

I've had a lot of email of late... People want me to recommend good books about Thanksgiving. There's only a handful of ones that I...

Books Reviewed in THROUGH INDIAN EYES

In the 1990s during graduate school, I read a book called Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children . Prior to grad ...

American Indians and Bias in Cataloging (Shelving)

I've had a couple of questions lately, about shelving of books about American Indians. It led me to ask my colleagues in the American In...

Eve Bunting's CHEYENNE AGAIN

Below is a review of Eve Bunting's book, Cheyenne Again . The review is written by Beverly Slapin at Oyate, a Native not-for-profit orga...

The word "read" in Native languages

Was reading Cynthia Leitich Smith's blog this morning and saw this graphic. Isn't it nifty? If you click on the graphic, a larger ...

Anne Rockwell's THANKSGIVING DAY

A few days ago, I said I'd discuss children's books about Thanksgiving. Today, the focus is on Anne Rockwell's Thanksgiving Day ...

Stereotypes, Children's Books, and the Mental Health and Well Being of ALL Children

Earlier this morning I listened to a speech (on the radio) given by a clinical psychologist to an audience in Indiana. He was there to talk ...

CD: Native Writers Read Their Work

Available from the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) at the Smithsonian Institution is a wonderful CD called Pulling Down the Cl...

Thanksgiving Picture Books: THANKSGIVING MICE

Earlier this week I visited a local public library to take a look at their picture books with the word "Thanksgiving" in the title...