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PUEBLO BOY

Name: PUEBLO BOY
Author: Marcia Keegan
ISBN: 0-525-65060-1

GROWING UP IN TWO WORLDS

by Marcia Keegan & photographed by Marcia Keegan ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 1, 1991

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While living in many ways like a typical American child, a young Native American also learns about his people's history and traditions. As shown in the many large color photos, Timmy Roybal observes his mother working both as a weaver and as a computer programmer, his aunt as a potter, his uncle as a carver, and other adults doing various jobs. Timmy's father teaches him their traditions and takes him to see Pueblo treasures at the museum in Santa Fe where he is curator. Timmy also enters into tribal dance ceremonies (copiously illustrated). Timmy's life at San Ildefonso Pueblo—with a comfortable home, loving parents, a computer to use at school, and Little League—the hardships that a majority of Native Americans face. Still, Timmy is pleasant and appealing, while his life is depicted as varied and interesting. An authentic glimpse of the positive side of Pueblo life. (Biography. 7-11)

Pub Date: May 1, 1991

ISBN: 0-525-65060-1

Page Count: 48

Publisher: Dutton

Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 15, 1991

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CHILDREN'S BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

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THE LAST PRINCESS

THE STORY OF PRINCESS KA'IULANI OF HAWAI'I

by Fay Stanley & illustrated by Diane Stanley ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 22, 1991

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Third in line for the throne when she was born in 1875 to the younger sister of Princess (later Queen) Lili'uokalani and the Scottish Archibald Cleghorn, Ka'iulani's short life was dominated by the dissolution of the Hawaiian monarchy. Her happy childhood came to an end when her mother died in 1887; sent to school in England, it took two weeks for her to learn that American marines had forced her aunt to give up the throne. At 17, Ka'iulani traveled to Washington to intervene for her people, butdespite a sympathetic hearing from President Clevelandto little avail; back in Hawaii by the time of formal annexation, she caught pneumonia a few months later, dying at 23. The artist's mother reports this brief life with simple dignity; but most compelling here are Diane Stanley's well- researched, jewel-bright paintings, her carefully delineated figures, stiff as old photos, deployed against a wealth of pattern and landscape. Attractive; informative. Note on the Hawaiian language; bibliography. (Biography. 7-10)

Pub Date: April 22, 1991

ISBN: 0-02-786785-4

Page Count: 40

Publisher: Four Winds/MacMillan

Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1991

Categories:

CHILDREN'S BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

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IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT

A VOICE AGAINST VIOLENCE

by Patricia C. McKissack & Fredrick L. McKissack ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 1991

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Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) was a journalist whose lifelong fight against discrimination began at age 16. A founder of the N.A.A.C.P., she was most effective in speaking and writing against the horror and injustice of lynching. Her story is outlined here in simple yet lively prose. Like the others in the new ``Great African Americans'' series (Ralph J. Bunche; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Marian Anderson), this serves as an introduction, the didactic feel exacerbated by boldfacing terms defined in a glossary and by the utilitarian line drawings that, with b&w photos, appear as illustrations. These will be more effective in the classroom than as additions to juvenile collections. No bibliography, sources, or index. (Biography. 7-9)