A review by sometimes_samantha_reads
Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith

informative inspiring lighthearted 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! I like the connection between cultural traditions and moderns times. I think a lot of the time when we talk about the lives of Indigenous people or Black people in schools we put distance to the stories. With the injustices, things like traditions are stories aren't passed down and aren't valued (or known about) by others in the modern day. I think this will be a great model to my students and some of my students might make connections to their own lives as some of my girls do traditional dance in their cultures.