Terrific essays about Meyer's character "Jacob" in TWILIGHT

A post to YALSA about people of color in fantasy led me to a livejournal post about Jacob , the Quileute character in Stephenie Meyer's ...

Native literary magazine: RED INK

As noted yesterday, I'm in Tucson, visiting the American Indian Language Development Institute. Yesterday I was in Angie Hoffman's c...

More on Tanya Landman's APACHE: GIRL WARRIOR

Last week, I posted my initial thoughts on Tanya Landman's book, and, I posted Beverly Slapin's review of the book. My copy of th...

ALA's 2008 Conference Game: "California Dreaming"

The American Library Association is holding its annual conference in Anaheim, California June 26th thru July 2nd. Among the planned activiti...

Paulette Molin's AMERICAN INDIAN THEMES IN YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

Yesterday I posted an essay by my colleague, Paulette F. Molin, about activities found in the American Automobile Association's magazine...

Stereotypes in AAA's magazine

Today, I am pleased to share an essay written by Paulette F. Molin. Paulette is on the board of directors for Wordcraft Circle , and is an e...

Addition to the site

Meyer's Twilight , Mikaelsen's Spirit Bear , Alexie's Diary . These and other books get a lot of attention on this site. To help...

Another award for Alexie's YA Novel

Roger Sutton, editor at Horn Book , just posted to the child_lit listserv, that Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Tim...

Slapin's review of Landman's APACHE GIRL WARRIOR

As indicated in my previous post on this book, I asked Beverly Slapin about Landman's book. She sent this review. [Note: This review ma...

Debbie's thoughts on Tanya Landman's APACHE: GIRL WARRIOR

A colleague wrote to ask if I know anything about a book called Apache: Girl Warrior , by a British writer named Tanya Landman. The book was...

2008 Children's Literature Association Conference

I spent the last couple of days at the 2008 Children's Literature Association (ChLA) Conference. I met many people (professors) with wh...

Tlingit Elder's Comments on TOUCHING SPIRIT BEAR and Ben Mikaelsen

(Submitted to American Indians in Children's Literature by Tlingit elder, Eileen Baustian.)  To me, the first thing that comes to mind i...

Evangeline Parsons Yazzie's DZANI YAZHI NAAZBAA'/LITTLE WOMAN WARRIOR WHO CAME HOME: A STORY OF THE NAVAJO LONG WALK

[This review may not be used (published elsewhere, online or in print) without written permission of its author, Beverly Slapin.] Yazzie, Ev...

What do Native writers write about?

An observation: Most of the books written by Native writers are about Native people of the present day. There's a few works of historica...