NATIVE AMERICAN PICTURE BOOKS OF CHANGE: The Art of Historic Children's Editions
Rebecca C. Benes, . . Museum of New Mexico Press, $45 (176pp) ISBN 978-0-89013-471-9
A children's literature professor who admits that she is "neither an art historian nor a linguist," Benes offers clear, accessible and author-focused descriptions of books produced by the federal government for use in Indian schools, following a sweeping indictment of the schools in the late 1920s. The 106 beautiful color plates and 44 b&w illustrations drawn from the mostly hard-to-find books themselves all center on "change," or the enormous upheavals and adaptations in Native communities following the devastating wars of the 18th and 19th centuries. One author, Elizabeth DeHuff, teacher and author of one of the earliest picture books,
Reviewed on: 05/03/2004
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 168 pages - 978-0-89013-472-6