Comments on: Book Review: The Education of Little Tree http://greencouple.com/2008/04/15/book-review-the-education-of-little-tree/ Learning to live green and live together Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:27:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: equa yona http://greencouple.com/2008/04/15/book-review-the-education-of-little-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-332 equa yona Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:22:22 +0000 http://greencouple.com/2008/04/15/book-review-the-education-of-little-tree/#comment-332 <a href="http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2007/11/where-is-your-copy-of-education-of.html" rel="nofollow">Where is your copy of THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE?</a> [Edited by Will to link to the blog entry rather than reproducing the text here] Where is your copy of THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE?

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]]> By: Maggie http://greencouple.com/2008/04/15/book-review-the-education-of-little-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-318 Maggie Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:40:38 +0000 http://greencouple.com/2008/04/15/book-review-the-education-of-little-tree/#comment-318 Huh. I knew it was highly romanticized and definitely doubted anyone could remember any sort of details from his childhood but I didn't realize it was a complete work of fiction. It does raise some interesting issues about whether or not a person should recommend a book that was written by a terribly racist person who deliberately misled his readers to believe he had been raised as a Native American. I have mixed feelings but think that I would still recommend the book on its own merits. And I also read a few comments complaining about it's "simplistic plot" and "stereotypical imagery" but when it's such moving imagery and a plot that revolves around a 5-year-old, those both seem pretty reasonable sins to me. But it should totally be marketed as fiction. Are there not laws about that? I guess I assume things are as they are presented in the literary world, even if I'm skeptical about labels on food. Darn, is there nothing to trust anymore? (I'm mostly kidding.) Huh. I knew it was highly romanticized and definitely doubted anyone could remember any sort of details from his childhood but I didn’t realize it was a complete work of fiction.

It does raise some interesting issues about whether or not a person should recommend a book that was written by a terribly racist person who deliberately misled his readers to believe he had been raised as a Native American. I have mixed feelings but think that I would still recommend the book on its own merits.

And I also read a few comments complaining about it’s “simplistic plot” and “stereotypical imagery” but when it’s such moving imagery and a plot that revolves around a 5-year-old, those both seem pretty reasonable sins to me.

But it should totally be marketed as fiction. Are there not laws about that? I guess I assume things are as they are presented in the literary world, even if I’m skeptical about labels on food.

Darn, is there nothing to trust anymore? (I’m mostly kidding.)

]]> By: cinco http://greencouple.com/2008/04/15/book-review-the-education-of-little-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-317 cinco Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:42:56 +0000 http://greencouple.com/2008/04/15/book-review-the-education-of-little-tree/#comment-317 I remember reading it and liking it as a child, but it is NOT a true story. It is an extremely fake story, and it was written by a crazy segregationist klansman. http://www.amazon.com/review/product/0826328091/ref=sr_1_1_cm_cr_acr_txt?%5Fencoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 Bummer, isn't it? I remember reading it and liking it as a child, but it is NOT a true story. It is an extremely fake story, and it was written by a crazy segregationist klansman.

http://www.amazon.com/review/product/0826328091/ref=sr_1_1_cm_cr_acr_txt?%5Fencoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

Bummer, isn’t it?

]]> By: Linnea http://greencouple.com/2008/04/15/book-review-the-education-of-little-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-315 Linnea Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:19:13 +0000 http://greencouple.com/2008/04/15/book-review-the-education-of-little-tree/#comment-315 We read that in elementary school. I really liked it, until I read the part with the bird and the poison. That was a little unsettling for a nine-year-old. We read that in elementary school. I really liked it, until I read the part with the bird and the poison. That was a little unsettling for a nine-year-old.

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