10th Anniversary of RAIN IS NOT MY INDIAN NAME

Click over to Cynsations and read Cynthia Leitich Smith's reflections on Rain is Not My Indian Name . A gorgeous cover that I love to l...

Tim Tingle, ALA 2011

On Sunday at ALA 2011, I went by the Cinco Puntos booth, hoping Tim Tingle might be there. He was scheduled for a session at 4:00 to talk a...

ROBOPOCALYPSE by Daniel H. Wilson

A friend wrote to me yesterday to tell me about Daniel H. Wilson's Robopocalypse . I looked it up and am blown away by the story and the...

ALVIN HO: ALLERGIC TO BIRTHDAY PARTIES, SCIENCE PROJECTS, AND OTHER MAN-MADE CATASTROPHES

Editor's Note: My critique of Alvin Ho was posted on Saturday, June 18th, 2011. I let the author know about the critique. She responded....

"Chief Read Heap Much"

I'm doing some research on Caldecott Medal books that include images of American Indians. Today I'm looking at The Rooster Crows: A ...

Playing Indian, and, THE LOST ONES: LONG JOURNEY HOME (documentary)

Periodically I have conversations with someone who is determined to figure out how to justify playing Indian. I understand the impetus. Movi...

Amazon deleted my review of Killen's NOT ME!

***Update, 2:41 PM CST, June 14th. Please visit Killen's blog . She and I are talking with each other there about the book, Amazon, next...

DAUGHTER OF WINTER by Pat Lowery Collins

Daughter of Winter by Pat Lowery Collins is one of those books that a lot of people write to me about. I ordered a copy from the Urbana F...

Nicola Killen's NOT ME!

This morning, friend and colleague Thomas Crisp pointed me to Nicola Killen's Not Me! One look at the cover, and you know why he wrote...

WORSE THAN ROTTEN, RALPH by Jack Gantos and Nicole Rubel

As I move out of my campus office, I'm finding books I've meant to write about... Did you read Worse than Rotten, Ralph (1978) by Ja...

Australian cover for ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART TIME INDIAN

This is the Australian cover for Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian ! Wow! It does what Scott Andrews sugg...

Dang...

Nothing quite like starting a new novel and running into 'native as in born here, not savage' on the first page. The book is What Ha...

Teen-created cover for Alexie's PART-TIME INDIAN

On the yalsa-bk listserv, a librarian in California wrote that some books are a hard sell to students because they have unattractive covers....

"Others: 31%"

The New York Times has an interactive mapping feature called Mapping America available where you can "Browse local data from the Cens...

A Right to Justice: Native Youth Theater Play about Police Brutality

Photo credit: Charla Bear, KPLU, Seattle The young people in this photograph are Native actors in A Right to Justice , a play being done in ...

TRIBES OF NATIVE AMERICA - series

This morning a librarian in New Jersey wrote to ask about the Tribes of Native America series published n 2002 by Blackbirch Press. I don...

Tim Tingle and Matt Dembicki at ALA

Tim Tingle, enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma , and author of some of my favorite picture books , and Matt Dembicki will be...