It's also extremely Americocentric, even while briefly acknowledging that Canada also has native peoples. As such, it's a wordy non-fiction title, and not really suitable for storytime. Instead of a simple picture book about about fry bread, it's an introduction to a long author's note.

Personal note: My mother made for us what I kind of think is a Dutch equivalent, Oliebollen, or Dutch doughnuts, fried doughballs with raisins and cinnamon: Recipes of diverse groups of people everywhere eating it on various occasions. And I like the family recipe included, with image of mom. The appendix expands on each word he connects to fry bread. I liked it quite a bit, but maybe partly because I was hungry. And that people from different places can come together over it.

I really like the page that says fry bread is everything. I like how they relate fry bread to everything. I had the urge to make it, look up different recipes for it. The descriptions are sweet and so alive! I like the splatter effect of the art on one page, but really all the pages are pretty spectacular, sweet calm art. In the beginning they seemed unsure what has to be in a fry bread recipe, since it differs. I really wanted to eat fry bread after reading this! Well, he does use a family story to ground it in, with the family recipe included. It's not really a story, but a series of categories he finds fry bread IN: Fry bread as food, art, culture unifier. It's about fry bread as unifying cultural food, across tribes, but also something that everyone anyone can eat. It was written by Oklahoma Seminole and NYC journalist and academic Kevin Noble Maillard and illustrated bu Peruvian Juana Martinez-Neal. This is book #20 (of 20, so the last, I promise!) of 2019, and we liked it.

My family reads all the Goodreads-award-nominated picture books every year.

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