Educations Matters: Diverse Children's Book Reviews
Native American, American Indian, First Nations Canadian, and Indigenous Books for Kids.
I am presenting for the American Association of School Librarians Chapter Assembly because I do have resources, but I realized they are all over the map. So, to prepare for my presentation and to make the resources easy to find, I am putting them all in one place, right here in this post! Morning! I…
Please join us for Multicultural Children’s Book Club. We host a FREE and virtual multicultural children’s picture book club on the first Thursday of every month from 7 pm to 8 pm EST. November’s event will be held on November 3rd and we are celebrating Native American Heritage Month using Powwow Day by Traci Sorell,…
Please welcome my guest author today, Antony Perry, Danielle Greendeer, and Alexis Bunten; all the authors of Keepunmuk, a Thanksgiving picture book from the perspective of the Native Americans that we all need in our libraries! They are sharing their Top 5 Books to Read Alongside Keepunumuk for Thanksgiving. Keepunumuk by Danielle Greendeer (Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Citizen, Hawk…
What is Genocide? Before 1944, the word genocide did not exist. In 1944, a Jewish lawyer from Poland named Raphael Lemkin wanted a way to describe the Nazi policies of systematic murder. He combined geno from the Greek word meaning “race” or “tribe” with cide, from a Latin word meaning “killing.” Today, the word genocide…
Please join me for our tenth Multicultural Children’s Book Club. We host a FREE multicultural children’s picture book virtual book club on the first Thursday of every month from 7 pm to 8 pm EST. July’s event will be held on July 7th and we are celebrating both National Clean Beaches Week (July…
“If the plantation owners of the South, Jackson’s people, were to have the land they wanted to grow more cotton, the Choctaws had to move,” I said. “And if you, Chief Pushmataha, were so against this move, you must be gone, out of the way.” from When A Ghost Talks, Listen by Tim Tingle …
I was so happy to get some Inuit picture books sent to me and I wanted to learn more about the Inuit. The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska. The Inuit languages are part of the Eskimo–Aleut languages also known as Inuit-Yupik-Unangan and…