Appropriate for ages 3-6.Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. The verse and illustrations of this award-winning. There are all sorts of skin tones, hair and ages represented here, the air tinged with love and connection around them.Ī beautiful and inclusive picture book that takes a deep look at food, family and history. Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal. They show a diverse group of family members gathering to cook together. The illustrations of this book are so warm and merry. This is a celebration that Native Americans have survived and live on, continuing to gather, eat and celebrate. The nuance of a food being both celebratory and yet also indicative of what happened to an entire people, is an important one.

Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Much of the real detail of this is in the Author’s Note at the end of the book, but even the briefer read-aloud part of the book offers this connection to children. Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story - Kindle edition by Noble Maillard, Kevin, Martinez-Neal, Juana. Maillard looks at its connection to our nation’s history, the damage caused by the European invasion, and what fry bread means today. This picture book is about far more than a delicious family treat. It brings families together to celebrate their heritage, but also to realize where fry bread came from and how it relates to the massacres of Native peoples in the United States. Fry bread looks different depending on how long you fry it, tastes different depending on the recipe and the cook. Children of all ages participate in forming the bread and then listen together as it fries in the pan.

In this picture book, a diverse Native family comes together to make fry bread together. Fry bread may be first and foremost a food, but it is also about family. Told in a repeating format explaining all of the things that fry bread is, this picture book celebrates an iconic food in Native American families. Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard, illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal ( 9781626727465)

Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Maillard