Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

by Kevin Noble Maillard, Juana Martinez-Neal (Illustrator)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781662011665
Publisher:	Dreamscape Media
Publication date:	07/21/2020
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	297,860
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

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 Universityand 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.

Juana Martinez-Neal is the daughter and granddaughter of painters. She started her story in Lima, Peru, and then moved to the United States. The winner of a 2018 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award for La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya, she continues to write the story of her life day-by-day. She currently resides in Arizona with her husband and three children.