![]() My family loves the Who Was? biography series and this was the first time I felt the need to do any fact-checking.Īn old college friend eventually helped me locate the source material in Lewis and Clark’s expedition journals. ![]() The book was published in 2002, but is still in print today from Penguin Random House. I was looking for help in finding the source material for that scene in Who Was Sacagawea? by Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin. Reese about a scene in chapter 4 where Sacagawea learns that her brother, Cameahwait, is going to break a promise he had made to Meriwether Lewis. I didn’t set out to write a book review when I contacted Dr. Note on April 27, 2021: You can follow An-Lon Chen on Twitter: Īn-Lon Chen's Review of Who Was Sacagawea? Writers do, too (for examples, see Revised and Withdrawn). Publishers do pay attention to critical examinations of the books they publish. I wish more parents would write about the work they do, and share that work. ![]() An-Lon's essay demonstrates the work some parents do when they read a children’s book to their child. First is the questioning, and then, the research, and all though that research process, collisions with the historical record, the master narrative, and what children learn. ![]() What she wrote struck me as the sort of activity that I want readers of AICL to see. ![]() Note from Debbie: In February of 2021, I received an email from a parent who had questions about a scene in Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin’s biography of Sacagawea. ![]()
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