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misspippireads's review against another edition
5.0
This is a lovely book!
At storytime, I trimmed some of the text for each paragraph because the group was large and young in age. I tried to capture and share the words that built the main sentence of each page. It's a wonderful family story that also includes a recipe for fry bread in the back of the book.
It's definitely a great book for elementary students. You can make bread together and dive into all the author's notes in the back. You can also read the list of tribes at the front and back of the book. "Athe the time of this book's publication ... We researched or reached out to each nation listed here to confirm the common usage of their tribal name. We wanted to be as accurate as possible and to include tribes in the process."
2022 storytime theme: Ancestor Appreciation Day
Reviewed from a library copy.
At storytime, I trimmed some of the text for each paragraph because the group was large and young in age. I tried to capture and share the words that built the main sentence of each page. It's a wonderful family story that also includes a recipe for fry bread in the back of the book.
It's definitely a great book for elementary students. You can make bread together and dive into all the author's notes in the back. You can also read the list of tribes at the front and back of the book. "Athe the time of this book's publication ... We researched or reached out to each nation listed here to confirm the common usage of their tribal name. We wanted to be as accurate as possible and to include tribes in the process."
2022 storytime theme: Ancestor Appreciation Day
Reviewed from a library copy.
juliejolly150's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
ralphiereads76's review against another edition
5.0
I love how the illustrator depicted all differently-melanated Native people throughout this book.
susanreadstheworld's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
skylarkochava's review against another edition
5.0
Sweet book, but harder for my kids to "get" since I haven't yet found kosher-certified fry bread. But I always point it out when we go to powwows - the tons of ways it's prepared both sweet and savory, and how pervasive it is at every food stand. Also I linked it to similar foods from our own heritage as European-American Jews - challah is the obvious choice but also compared to our fried Chanukah foods like latkes and sufganiyot.
cupsofteaandnovels's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
3.5
carolineinthelibrary's review against another edition
5.0
A beautiful, almost poetic book about the history and love for fry bread. I loved the diverse illustrations in this book and would absolutely use this for a storytime!
tinynavajo's review against another edition
5.0
I grew up with fry bread made both by my nali and my mother, who is white but learned from my nali. And fry is as different from batch to batch, recipe to recipe, as we are as people and Native Americans. I think as we have more books like this and more books about different types of people, then we need to allow for differences in bread. And I need to learn my family's recipe.