Fry Bread, Kevin Noble Maillard
Fry Bread, Kevin Noble Maillard
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Fry Bread
A Native American Family Story

Author: Kevin Noble Maillard

Narrator: Kevin Noble Maillard

Unabridged: 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/20/2020

Categories: Fiction, Indigenous


Synopsis

Fry bread is food.It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate.Fry bread is time.It brings families together for meals and new memories.Fry bread is nation.It is shared by many, from coast to coast and beyond.Fry bread is us.It is a celebration of old and new, traditional and modern, similarity and difference.Told in lively and powerful verse by debut author Kevin Noble Maillard, Fry Bread is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family.

About Kevin Noble Maillard

Kevin Noble Maillard is an author and former contributing editor to The New York Times. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Essence, and The Week. A graduate of Duke University and Penn Law School, he earned his Ph.D. in political theory from the University of Michigan. An enrolled citizen of the Seminole Nation, he is a tenured professor of law at Syracuse University.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Reads on December 11, 2024

This is one of the best children’s books I’ve ever read.......more

Goodreads review by Calista on April 09, 2020

There is a recipe at the end of the book to make your own Fry Bread. I spent 4 summers doing a Vision Quest in South Dakota and while I was there I was able to try Fry Bread. I have to say, it was well made and simply not for me, but other people around it loved it. I don't like funnel cake and other......more

Goodreads review by Dave on December 06, 2019

My family reads all the Goodreads-award-nominated picture books every year. This is book #20 (of 20, so the last, I promise!) of 2019, and we liked it. It was written by Oklahoma Seminole and NYC journalist and academic Kevin Noble Maillard and illustrated bu Peruvian Juana Martinez-Neal. It's about......more

Goodreads review by Matal “The Mischling Princess” on August 23, 2023

I have heard so much about “Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story,” written by Kevin Noble Maillard and illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal. So, when the book just appeared in my local library, I raced to check it out. There are so many things that I love about this book. The first is that the ill......more

Goodreads review by Paul on August 31, 2019

"Five Stars for Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story" From the start, I want to tell you that I could get this review completely wrong. But, I note that a number of friends are giving the book five stars and moving on. Their endorsement with the full five stars says that they loved the book. Fou......more