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Good morning, As a classroom teacher, I had to buy a lot of books out of my own pocketbook. Before I bought them, I made sure that I read the books so I would not have spent money on a book that had factual errors, stereotypes, bias, etc. about American Indians. But, I realize librarians have to buy from reviews, using a rule-of-thumb about the number of positive reviews a given book gets across the major review journals. A lot of problematic books get positive reviews. I pulled together a sample of the reviews for Tanya Landman's APACHE: GIRL WARRIOR and posted them to my site earlier this week. I also linked to my posts about the book, and Oyate's review, too. http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2009/07/tanya-landmans-goldsmiths-daughter.html It is disappointing. Debbie Visit my Internet resource: American Indians in Children's Literature http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net Debbie A. Reese (Nambé O'-ween-ge') Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Native American House, Room 2005 1204 West Nevada Street, MC-138 Urbana, Illinois 61801 Email: debreese@illinois.edu TEL 217-265-9885 FAX 217-265-9880 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, you send a message to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/ --------------------------------------------------------------------