6/20/2023 0 Comments Fry bread picture bookThe simple act of making fry bread is elevated to a unifying part of Indigenous cultures and heritage. Pros: Although this is an excellent resource to share with young children, all the end matter also makes it a useful book for older kids and even adults. The author shares his fry bread recipe at the end, followed by eight pages that give a lot more historical and cultural information about each page of the main text. Each page starts with a statement about fry bread: “Fry bread is food”, “Fry bread is shape”, “Fry bread is sound”, followed by a few lines of poetic text elaborating on this idea, shown in illustrations featuring a diverse group of children and their families. Summary: Starting with the endpapers, which list all the Indigenous nations and communities in the United States, this book celebrates many different Native groups while showing the commonality they share in making and eating fry bread.
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