When Random House announced that they would publish President Barack Obama’s children’s book Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters this fall, Mike Luckovich drew an editorial cartoon for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution picturing Republican spokesman Newt Gingrich pointing at the book and observing, “Proof Obama hates adult readers.” As Luckovich’s cartoon comically pointed out, even so simple a thing as the appearance of a children’s book would likely spark reactions from the President’s critics. Indeed, after the book was published, a Fox News forum objected to Obama’s choice of Sitting Bull among the thirteen Americans the book honored; the headline read “Obama Praises Indian Chief Who Defeated U.S. General.” . . .
I wrote a little about the illustration of Sitting Bull:
ReplyDeletehttp://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2010/11/loren-longs-illustration-of-sitting.html
and so did another Native scholar:
http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2010/11/scott-andrews-cherokee-on-of-thee-i.html