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Native American Picture Books of Change
The Art of Historic Children's Editions
By Benes, Rebecca C.
- ISBN
- 978-0-89013-471-9
- Publisher
- Museum of New Mexico Press
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on July 15, 2004
Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color plates and 44 black-and-white illustrations and offering fascinating accounts of the preservation of Native American stories, this important book will greatly benefit the fields of both children's and Native American literature. Benes, a former librarian and a gallery owner, begins her discussion with Elizabeth DeHuff's books from the 1920s, describing how...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2004
In the New Deal years, the Bureau of Indian Affairs switched from suppressing Native American culture to preserving and transmitting it; at the same time, a strong school of Native American painters emerged at the Santa Fe Indian School. The result: an auspicious burst of publication—highlighted by Ann Nolan Clark's In My Mother's House in 1941. Hardly less fluently written or handsomely illustrated, however, were several series of bilingual readers, for Hopi,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
