I haven't seen Barack Obama's best selling book Of thee I sing but I have heard about it - a letter to his two daughters, featuring 13 "groundbreaking Americans and the ideals that have shaped our nation."
This is a post by Debbie Reese, a Nambe Pueblo Indian from the Upper Village, on her blog : American Indians in Children's Literature. She talks about the book in general and about the entry on Sitting Bull in particular - I found this thoughtful analysis interesting - with reference to this title, and in general about respecting indigenous cultures.
http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-does-sitting-bulls-great-grandson.html
Showing posts with label children's literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children's literature. Show all posts
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Monday, August 9, 2010
Books for Keeps online and free
The wonderful UK children's literature journal Books for Keeps is now online and freely available.
Go to the website http://www.booksforkeeps.co.uk/ and click on 'View Latest Issue' which will take you to the July issue, including the digital version.
If you then scroll down that page, you will see the BfK Newsletter box where you can 'subscribe' to the free BfK email newsletter which will alert you when the magazine is available and to new material on the site.
From the website :
Books for Keeps is the UK’s leading, independent children’s book magazine. It was launched in 1980 and ever since has been reviewing hundreds of new children’s books each year and publishing articles on every aspect of writing for children. There are over 12,500 reviews on our new website and more than 2,000 articles including interviews with the top children’s authors and illustrators.
“The best scholars, reviewers, authors and critics write for Books for Keeps,” says editor Rosemary Stones, “We hold a mirror up to the children’s book world and reflects back its output, issues and preoccupations with intelligence, scholarship and wit.”
Go to the website http://www.booksforkeeps.co.uk/ and click on 'View Latest Issue' which will take you to the July issue, including the digital version.
If you then scroll down that page, you will see the BfK Newsletter box where you can 'subscribe' to the free BfK email newsletter which will alert you when the magazine is available and to new material on the site.
From the website :
Books for Keeps is the UK’s leading, independent children’s book magazine. It was launched in 1980 and ever since has been reviewing hundreds of new children’s books each year and publishing articles on every aspect of writing for children. There are over 12,500 reviews on our new website and more than 2,000 articles including interviews with the top children’s authors and illustrators.
“The best scholars, reviewers, authors and critics write for Books for Keeps,” says editor Rosemary Stones, “We hold a mirror up to the children’s book world and reflects back its output, issues and preoccupations with intelligence, scholarship and wit.”
Saturday, May 15, 2010
UK list of "the best children's books ever"
From The Guardian newspaper, by Lucy Mangan : Best Children's Books Ever
Increasing numbers of children are starting school without having been read to. But which are the books to get them – and keep them – hooked? Lucy Mangan introduces our guide to the best. So whether it's to fight the White Witch or snuggle up with the Moomins, make yourself comfy...
Two things :
Increasing numbers of children are starting school without having been read to. But which are the books to get them – and keep them – hooked? Lucy Mangan introduces our guide to the best. So whether it's to fight the White Witch or snuggle up with the Moomins, make yourself comfy...
The following – a combination of personal recommendations, enduring classics and currently popular borrowings from school and public libraries – are suggestions and starting points only, of course (and the age ranges attached even more so), but hopefully there will be something, somewhere for everyone.
Best books: 12-years-old and over
It refers to a recent survey of teachers which found that over half of them said they were teaching children who had never been read a bedtime story... See article here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/primaryeducation/7652760/Children-missing-out-on-bedtime-stories-say-primary-teachers.html )Two things :
- I wonder what the story is (no pun intended !) about bedtime reading with the children in your class - how many have bedtime stories each night / most nights ? and who reads it to them ? where do they get their read-aloud bedtime stories from ?
- What do you think would be on our list of "the best New Zealand books ever"
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