Frog and Toad Confronted the Alterity of Otherness
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Author/Creator
Dean Rader
Grand Valley Review, vol. 28, no. 1, 2005, pp. 55-57
Description
A poem.
Compares the treatment of the "discovery" of North America in two children's books: Encounter by Jane Yolen and A Coyote Columbus Story by Thomas King.
Excerpt from A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children edited by Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin.
Modules: First Peoples, Early European Colonization (1600 to 1763), Fur Trade, and From British Colony to Confederation (1763 to 1867).
Retelling of seven traditional stories including: When the Eagle Went to Borrow Eyes from the Snail; The Shadow; Daughter of Sea Cucumber; The Thunderbird Has a Nest on Thunder Mountain; and When the Codfish Was Sad.
Written in English and Hupačasath.