Has anyone on the list seen the pre-publication pages for Doris Seale and
Beverly Slapin's edited volume, A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in
Books for Children?
Below are excerpts from some of the reviews. Though I haven't seen the
volume yet, I am confident it will be equal to Through Indian Eyes, and
thus, will be invaluable to anyone working with children and children's books.
Debbie Reese
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From Tribal College Journal:
"If you are teaching children's literature to prospective teachers,
Headstart staff, librarians or others who make vital decisions about
acquisition and use of appropriate books for kids, you have GOT to own this
book. If you are teaching Native American kids, you also must OWN this
book. It critically reviews and assesses the cultural authenticity and
historical accuracy of hundreds of well-known (and elsewhere highly
regarded) children's titles of the past ten years with a particular
scrutiny for the taint of misinformation, cultural theft, and lack of
balance..."
From Nina Lindsey for School Library Journal:
"This broad collection of criticism exhibits a wide array of opinions. By
calling attention to this diversity of Native voices, it points out the
failure of mainstream publishers to represent Native work, and the crucial
role that teachers and librarians must play in questioning non-Native work
and seeking authentic criticism..."
From Multicultural Review:
"This annotated bibliography complements Seale and Slapin's classic Through
Indian Eyes (1992, updated in 1998), which offered guidelines for
evaluating children's books about American Indians as well as essays on
well-known books, good and bad examples. Their latest volume evaluates
hundreds of books for children and teenagers published from the early 1900s
through 2003. It is as close to comprehensive as a bibliography on a given
subject can get, and more brutally honest than anything else out there,
save its distinguished predecessors. Seale, Slapin, and their more than a
dozen reviewers and commentators-noted storytellers, poets, fiction
writers, scholars, teachers, and student and community activists-take on
Newberry and Caldecott medalists and reading-list perennials (Walk Two
Moons, The Sign of the Beaver, The Matchlock Gun) for their simplistic,
stereotype-filled, condescending, and outright false portrayals of American
Indians. Plagiarized works are also noted...."
Debbie A. Reese, (Nambé Pueblo)
Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1206 West Nevada
Urbana, IL 61801
TEL 217.265.9870
FAX 217.265.9880
Email: debreese@uiuc.edu
Debbie A. Reese, (Nambé Pueblo)
Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1206 West Nevada
Urbana, IL 61801
TEL 217.265.9870
FAX 217.265.9880
Email: debreese@uiuc.edu
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