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Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
- Subject
- Native American
- Age
- 3-5 years
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 48
- Publisher
- Roaring Brook Press
- Size
- 24.9 cm × 25.1 cm
- ISBN
- 9781626727465
Winner of the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
An American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor Winner
“A wonderful and sweet book . . . Lovely stuff.” —The New York Times Book Review
Told in lively and powerful verse by debut author Kevin Noble Maillard, Fry Bread is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family, vibrantly illustrated by Pura Belpre Award winner and Caldecott Honoree Juana Martinez-Neal.
Fry bread is food.
It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate.
Fry bread is time.
It brings families together for meals and new memories.
Fry bread is nation.
It is shared by many, from coast to coast and beyond.
Fry bread is us.
It is a celebration of old and new, traditional and modern, similarity and difference.
A Charlotte Huck Recommended Book
A Publishers Weekly Best Picture Book
A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book
A School Library Journal Best Picture Book
A Booklist Editor's Choice
A Shelf Awareness Best Children's Book
A Goodreads Choice Award Semifinalist
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book
A National Public Radio (NPR) Best Book
An NCTE Notable Poetry Book
A NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
A ALA Notable Children's Book
An ILA Notable Book for a Global Society
Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year List
One of NPR's 100 Favorite Books for Young Readers
Nominee, Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award
Nominee, Illinois Monarch Award
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What reviewers said
“Through the story and the book's beautiful pictures, Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez-Neal capture the complexity of native identity.”
“A wonderful and sweet book [that] takes a staple food of many tribes across the country and uses it to think about family, history, memory and community. . . Lovely stuff.”
“With buoyant, heartfelt illustrations that show the diversity in Native America, the book tells the story of a post-colonial food, a shared tradition across the North American continent . . . Through this topic that includes the diversity of so many Native peoples in a single story, Maillard (Mekusukey Seminole) promotes unity and familiarity among nations. Fry bread is much more than food, as this book amply demonstrates.”
“Fry Bread celebrates the thing itself and much, much more . . . Maillard and Martinez-Neal bring depth, detail, and whimsy to this Native American food story, with text and illustrations depicting the diversity of indigenous peoples, the role of continuity between generations, and the adaptation over time of people, place, and tradition.”
“A powerful meditation”
“This warm and charming book shows and affirms Native lives. The informational text and expressive drawings give it broad appeal.”
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