Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

By Kevin Noble Maillard

Illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal
Published by Roaring Brook Press

ABOUT FRY BREAD
Winner of the 2020 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
A 2020 American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor Winner

“Through the story and the book’s beautiful pictures, Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez-Neal capture the complexity of native identity.”
- Graham Lee Brewer, NPR

“A wonderful and sweet book [that] takes a staple food of many tribes across the coun- try and uses it to think about family, history, memory and community. . . Lovely stuff.”
– The New York Times Book Review

“With buoyant, heartfelt illustrations that show the diversity in Native America, the book tells the story of a post-colonial food, a shared tradition across the North American continent . . . Through this topic that includes the diversity of so many Native peoples in a single story, Maillard (Mekusukey Seminole) promotes unity and familiarity among nations. Fry bread is much more than food, as this book amply demonstrates.”
– Kirkus Reviews, starred review

ABOUT KEVIN NOBLE MAILLARD
Kevin Noble Maillard is an author of children’s literature, a journalist and recipe developer for the New York Times, and a Professor of Law at Syracuse University. He has written for The Atlantic and has provided on-air commentary to ABC News and MSNBC. He is the debut author of Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story, a picture book illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal, which won the Sibert Medal and the American Indian Youth Literature Honor. An enrolled member of the Seminole Nation of Oklaho- ma, he is based in Manhattan, NY.

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