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Great Books for Young Readers

Here's a list of books for children using Native American characters, themes or settings, recommended by Debbie Reese, assistant professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois. They were recommended during the Nov. 5 Great Books for Young Readers on WILL-AM's The Afternoon Magazine.

 

A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children, edited by Beverly Slapin and Doris Seale (AltaMira Press)

Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children, edited by Beverly Slapin and Doris Seale

Boozhoo: Come Play With Us, (Fond du Lac Head Start)

Do All Indians Live in Tipis? Questions and Answers from the National Museum of the American Indian (National Museum of the American Indian)

Home to Medicine Mountain, Chiori Snatiage (Children's Books Press)

Coyote Christmas: A Lakota Story, S. D. Nelson (Abrams)

Great Books for Young Readers airs on WILL-AM at 2:45 p.m. the first Monday of every month.

Books used for WILL's book mentoring project

Books for boys

Multi-cultural children's books

Books recommended by Champaign and Urbana children's librarians

More books recommended by children's librarians

 




 

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