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Debbie Reese at Northern New Mexico College on March 9 2016

Debbie Reese at Northern New Mexico College on March 9 2016

Im looking forward to time Ill spend with students in the P�e Project at Northern New Mexico College. If youre nearby, I hope youll come! My goal in this lecture is to talk about what children are taught in schools. In textbooks and in childrens literature, we tend to see the same problems: factual errors, bias, erasures, and missed opportunities, too. 


Take, for example, a very popular series called Geronimo Stilton. One of them is in Scholastics Arrow (4th-6th grade) flyer for February 2016. The book is Geronimo Stiltons Race Across America. It is a good example of erasure.

In it, Geronimo visits Arizona. Those of you with knowledge of Native people know there are a lot of Native people in Arizona, but there arent any in Race Across America.

I understand that it might have not fit with the story to include Navajo people for Geronimo to interact with when hes on Navajo lands, but throughout the book, there are pages that provide information that doesnt have much to do with the story. In Race Across America, Geronimo and his bike racing team fly to the West Coast aboard a large plane. In that part of the story, theres a page about exercises anyone can do to stretch their limbs when flying. You see these exercises in the airline magazines. Theyre the kind people should do to avoid thrombosis.

So--why not include something about the Navajo Nation and sovereignty rather than pages about Westerns that were filmed in Monument Valley?

Ill be doing a review of Race Across America later.

Scholastic publishes the series. It also provides teachers with lesson plans to use with the books. Heres a screen capture of one:


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