Education: #WeRead360

I'm looking for... Indigenous children’s books / Indigenous children’s literature. 

Step 1) Try searching those keywords in the EBSCO Education Full Text database and look for an article that recommends and/or reviews children's literature!

Step 2) Did you find this article in the list of results? Reese, D. (2018). Critical Indigenous Literacies: Selecting and Using Children’s Books about Indigenous Peoples. Language Arts, 95(6), 389–393.

Step 3) Take the Full Text Finder link to get to the National Council of Teachers of English Language Arts journal. It goes to volume Vol. 95, No. 6, July  2018. The Critical Indigenous Literacies article is one of the Language Arts Lessons in that issue.

Step 4) You can read and/or download the article. It's about "unlearning stereotypical representations of Indigenous peoples and replacing harmful narratives with accurate information and understandings."

Step 5) There are several recommended books listed at the end of article, so select a book from the recommended reading list and learn more about that book. For example, In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall III.

Step 6) Even though you found In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse listed in a recommended list of books in an article in Language Arts in an EBSCOhost database, can you corroborate that this is a good recommendation?

Step 7) Is the book In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall III given a good recommendation at Social Justice Books | Teaching for a Change, for example?

Step 8) The conscious kid book lists are another place to check. Can you find other sites? What about School Library Journal Reviews Booklists?

Alter, Alexandra, and Elizabeth A. Harris. "Dr. Seuss Books Are Pulled, and a ‘Cancel Culture’Controversy Erupts." The New York Times (2021).

Is it "cancel culture" or is it a reflection of current social and cultural values?
What were the prevailing (and changing) social and cultural values during Theodor Geisel's lifetime?
Who was his audience? Why?

Further Reading:

 Ishizuka, Katie. "The Cat Is Out of the Bag: Orientalism, Anti-Blackness, and White Supremacy in Dr. Seuss's Children's Books." Research on Diversity in Youth Literature 1.2 (2019): 4.

the conscious kid

Hwang Lynch, Grace. "Is the Cat in the Hat Racist? Read Across America Shifts Away From Dr. Seuss and Toward Diverse Books." School Library Journal, 11 Sept. 2017.