In Kevin Noble Maillard's children's book Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story, we are given a precious illustration of how an entire nation of native peoples are connected by a simple yet profound image of fry bread. As a Choctaw descendent, I have grown up with Choctaw dishes: fry bread, Chahta Banaha (best with bacon grease), and Tanchi Labona to name a few). While reading this book, I was transported back to my maternal grandparents' home learning how to cook fry bread from scratch. This story walks its readers through making fry bread while also connecting it to specific concepts that is relevant to building a child's sensory skills such as "food, shape, sound, color, flavor, time, art, history, place, nation, everything". Kevin Noble Maillard also employs examples of figurative language to truly connect children to their own experiences with cooking with family.
Discussion and Classroom Application
This book is an excellent resource for teaching figurative language such as metaphor and onomatopoeia. The language is also very simple wo this would be a great addition to classrooms ranging from kindergarten to possibly 3rd grade. This would also be a great supplement resource for History as it discusses key historical events relevant specifically to the removal of the Native Tribes to Oklahoma.
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