New Books, and controversial Topics

 We have received a few donations of new materials, including a couple of new culture books for children. One of them, Joseph Bruchac's Hidden Roots, is a novel written for middle-schoolers about an Abenaki boy in upstate New York in the 1960s. It has been discussed on Nambé scholar Debbie Reese's American Indians in Children's Literature blog, both when it first came out , and more recently in connection with an extended discussion (or perhaps argument would be a more accurate word) about a recent novel for children about an Abenaki girl in Vermont in the 1930's, Beth Canell's Darkness Under the Water. Do you feel, as Reese and most native reviewers do, that books for children, even fiction, should have absolute cultural and historical accuracy?

http://klallamlibrary.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-books-and-controversial-topics.html