Native American Heritage Month
Title: Fry Bread: a Native American Family Tradition
Author: Kevin Noble Maillard
Illustrator: Juana Martinez-Neal
Publisher: Roaring Book Press, 2019
Opening pages:
Fry Bread is Food
Flour, salt, water
Cornmeal, baking powder
Perhaps milk, maybe sugar
All mixed together in a bowl
This book!
How do I describe it? It is poetry. It is history. It is truth. It is sadness and happiness. It is simple and complex. It is beautiful and powerful. It is a book for reading together and for discussing. It is for young and old.
"Fry Bread is Everything
Round, flat, large, small
North, South, East, West
Familiar and foreign, old and new
We come together"
It is a doorway to understanding, loving, making amends, opening our eyes, and creating a better future.
At the end of the book there are 8 pages of author's notes and another page of references and footnotes. So much information in a beautiful picture book.
Juana Martinez-Neal's illustrations are joyful, lively, thoughtful, sad, true and engaging. They were created in acrylics, colored pencil, and graphite on hand-textured paper.
Activities and Resources:
At the end of the book there is a recipe for Kevin's Fry Bread. This would be a wonderful family activity.
I found a recipe that is gluten free.
Activities for Native American Heritage Month
How do I describe it? It is poetry. It is history. It is truth. It is sadness and happiness. It is simple and complex. It is beautiful and powerful. It is a book for reading together and for discussing. It is for young and old.
"Fry Bread is Everything
Round, flat, large, small
North, South, East, West
Familiar and foreign, old and new
We come together"
It is a doorway to understanding, loving, making amends, opening our eyes, and creating a better future.
At the end of the book there are 8 pages of author's notes and another page of references and footnotes. So much information in a beautiful picture book.
Juana Martinez-Neal's illustrations are joyful, lively, thoughtful, sad, true and engaging. They were created in acrylics, colored pencil, and graphite on hand-textured paper.
Activities and Resources:
At the end of the book there is a recipe for Kevin's Fry Bread. This would be a wonderful family activity.
I found a recipe that is gluten free.
Activities for Native American Heritage Month
As always you can read about more perfect Picture Books at Susanna Hill's blog. Her last Perfect Picture Book was this same book. It is one worth sharing over and over again. Be sure to check out the wonderful list by themes on this page.
