kevinhendricks 's review for:

The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

2.0

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I really struggled with this book. My daughter's teacher read it to her class and she loved it, insisting I read it to her and her brother. We had a lot of conversations about the portrayal of the Native American. I was initially put off when Omri kept referring to the Indian as his, but that attitude changed over the course of the book and was very much the point. All in all, the magical story feels overshadowed by the many issues the story raised. I talked more with my kids about the practice of scalping than about toys coming to life.