StreetScenes
2010
Bank Street Writers Lab authors launch A Kid's Guide to Native American History at Bank Street Bookstore event
Yvonne Wakim Dennis and Arlene Hirschfelder at book signing
The Bank Street Bookstore hosted a publication party on the evening of Tuesday, November 17, 2009, to honor A Kid's Guide to Native American History. The authors, Yvonne Wakim Dennis and Arlene Hirschfelder, are long-time members of the Bank Street Writers Lab, an affiliate of the Bank Street Center for Children's Literature. The book, a hands-on guide featuring more than 50 activities, introduces children (and grown-ups too!) to the diversity of American's indigenous cultures, people, experiences, and events that have helped to shape the United States, past and present.
Dennis is the outreach director for Nitchen, Inc., a support agency for indigenous families, and the Nitchen Children's Museum of Native America. She and Hirschfelder also coauthored Children of Native America Today (2003), and were co-editors of Children of the U.S.A. (2008). Hirschfelder is also the author of numerous books on Native Americans, including Native Americans: A History in Pictures (2000) and Rising Voices: The Writings of Young Native Americans (1993). She has been a consultant for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
The Bank Street Writers Lab, created in 1937 by Bank Street College founder Lucy Sprague Mitchell, is a supportive workshop that fosters the writing of children's literature that shows an understanding and appreciation of the language of growing children, is aware of and responsive to children's real and imagined worlds, and affirms the social and cultural heritage of every child.
The Bank Street Writers Lab is an affiliate of the Bank Street Center for Children's Literature. For more information, click here >>
