This Land
Hardcover – Picture Book, August 27, 2024
Random House Children's Books · Hardcover · August 27, 2024
This engaging story about native lands invites kids to trace history and explore their communities.
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- Who it’s for
- A child-sized invitation to see familiar American places as Indigenous homelands with histories worth exploring.
- Themes
- Indigenous homelands, History of place, Community exploration
- Genres
- Indigenous Canada, Native American Life (U.S.), U.S. History
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This engaging story about native lands invites kids to trace history and explore their communities. "An adorable primer on the history of land."--PEOPLE.com Before my family lived in this house, a different family did, and before them, another family, and another before them. And before that, the family lived here, not in a house, but a wigwam. Who lived where you are before you got there?
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This Land teaches readers that American land, from our backyards to our schools to Disney World, are the traditional homelands of many Indigenous nations. This Land will spark curiosity and encourage readers to explore the history of the places they live and the people who have lived there throughout time and today.
Place Has Memory
A child-sized invitation to see familiar American places as Indigenous homelands with histories worth exploring.
Come here for
- A fresh way to think about the land beneath home, school, and everyday places
- Curiosity about who lived in your community before you
Expect
- An accessible introduction to Indigenous homelands and place history
- An invitation to explore the people who have lived there, past and present
Where it sits
| Indigenous Canada | 50% |
|---|---|
| U.S. History | 40% |
| Native American Life (U.S.) | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- US: Native American Stories
- U.S. History
- Activism & Social Justice
- Authors
- Ashley Fairbanks
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Published
- August 27, 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Indigenous homelands · History of place · Community exploration
- Reading lane
- US: Native American Stories