littlebookjockey's review against another edition
3.0
This was a nice introduction to different Cherokee traditions that I'd never heard of before. It's a nice reminder of the many different cultures that live in the US.
muddypuddle's review against another edition
5.0
This book is GORGEOUS. It details the lives of the Cherokee Nation through the seasons, giving the Cherokee words (and pronunciations right on the page, hooray!!), and the simple writing is beautiful. You close the book with a good feeling, and you want to SHARE! I want to put some of these illustrations on my walls!
little_silver's review against another edition
4.0
Depictions of modern Native American people. Includes Cherokee vocab with pronunciation guides.
sometimes_samantha_reads's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
I bought this for Thanksgiving in my 5th grade class but to also add to my "own voices" collection of representstive literature in the room. It was a good choice!
stenaros's review against another edition
4.0
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The biggest win as far as I'm concerned is that the Cherokee words that are used are DEFINED ON THE VERY SAME PAGE! I'm not sure why it's taken this long to get to this point in picture book layouts.
No need to wonder if there was a glossary in the back. No need to decide if I'm going to exert the effort to turn to the glossary. Instead, there was the word's definition, right there on the same page. Picture books have so much space I think this should be a regular practice.
Aside from that innovation, this was a nice intro to Cherokee culture and had great use of color.
The biggest win as far as I'm concerned is that the Cherokee words that are used are DEFINED ON THE VERY SAME PAGE! I'm not sure why it's taken this long to get to this point in picture book layouts.
No need to wonder if there was a glossary in the back. No need to decide if I'm going to exert the effort to turn to the glossary. Instead, there was the word's definition, right there on the same page. Picture books have so much space I think this should be a regular practice.
Aside from that innovation, this was a nice intro to Cherokee culture and had great use of color.
libraryrobin's review against another edition
4.0
A Cherokee family shares the way they give thanks throughout the year. Most fascinating to me is the syllabary that follows the story.
jshettel's review against another edition
5.0
Gorgeous picture book about the Cherokee nation, gratitude, and culture. #OwnVoices
stevia333k's review against another edition
3.0
The audiobook was very lovely done in terms of adapting the pictures into audio. This book also unlocked memories in me that explained why country music felt as indigenous as I had access to circa 2004 (by the way, that's due to settler colonizers wanting to call themselves The indigenous). Basically the Cherokee are from "the south" and went as far west as Oklahoma.
Anyway, the part that pissed me off mainly was the "serving one's country" one... Like besides the whole colonizer dynamic USA has against the indigenous, the military doesn't serve the "country", in USA it serves the white bourgeois patriarchy. Like there's so many horrible & terrorizing things USA military has done & it's been for bullshit.
Point being, maybe this book is pro-indigenous, it's definitely white supremacist & I don't know how else to mark this book now because usually I seek to read indigenous books in an effort to overturn Usamerican colonization as opposed to supporting it. I'm filing it as reference because it shares Cherokee customs & the syllbary, but still. I'll have to review my tags for kid lit reference materials like the DK series & that "holidays in each country" series.
So 3 stars, maybe 2 depending on how the rest of the info turns out.
Anyway, the part that pissed me off mainly was the "serving one's country" one... Like besides the whole colonizer dynamic USA has against the indigenous, the military doesn't serve the "country", in USA it serves the white bourgeois patriarchy. Like there's so many horrible & terrorizing things USA military has done & it's been for bullshit.
Point being, maybe this book is pro-indigenous, it's definitely white supremacist & I don't know how else to mark this book now because usually I seek to read indigenous books in an effort to overturn Usamerican colonization as opposed to supporting it. I'm filing it as reference because it shares Cherokee customs & the syllbary, but still. I'll have to review my tags for kid lit reference materials like the DK series & that "holidays in each country" series.
So 3 stars, maybe 2 depending on how the rest of the info turns out.
xangemxv's review against another edition
5.0
I'm actually rating the Wonderbook version. 50000/10 stars. Never read a Wonderbook or a Vox book before, mostly because I don't want to take something that's so popular with patrons at my library, but I accidentally got this one through interlibrary loan. I love the ambient background noises. And the pace that forced me to actually look at the illustrations rather than breeze through in 30 seconds. And the way they took care to pronounce each new Tsalagi word two or three times before moving on. I definitely would have been pronouncing a lot of these words wrong if I had just read them in my head. The listening/reading combo is the ultimate combo. Tell me I'm wrong.
I'm quickly becoming acquainted with Indigenous authors as I explore the story of a people and host of cultures that nearly were successfully lost to genocide. I wish I learned this growing up. I wish I wasn't 27 when I first learned about the government boarding schools.
I'm quickly becoming acquainted with Indigenous authors as I explore the story of a people and host of cultures that nearly were successfully lost to genocide. I wish I learned this growing up. I wish I wasn't 27 when I first learned about the government boarding schools.