![]() ![]() “I thought there was a need for books that could help parents teach the values they hold dear.”īrave Books’ first offering is called “ Elephants are Not Birds,” the story of an elephant named Kevin who likes to sing, and then is convinced by a vulture - named Culture - that he warbles so well, he must actually be a bird. “Once my eyes were open I was seeing it everywhere and I couldn’t unsee it,” Talbot said. “Elephants Are Not Birds” author Ashley St. Kendi’s picture book, “ Antiracist Baby,” which urges parents and kids to “make equity a reality,” as content that needs a counterpoint. And everywhere I looked was propaganda,” the Montgomery, Texas-based dad told The Post.Īn ophthalmologist by trade, Talbot pointed to Ibram X. Launching this week, Brave Books will focus exclusively on stories for kids, and offers parents “a conservative alternative to the current cultural activism that our children are being taught in schools, in the entertainment they watch and the books they read,” according to their website.Ĭompany CEO Trent Talbot, who had his first child a little more than a year ago, conceived of Brave Books when, he said, he started to notice “that there is a real war going on for the hearts and minds of our kids. Republicans damned if they do, damned if they don’t in Trump’s 2024 candidacyĪ new conservative publishing house wants to get the “wokeness” out of bedtime. This title was originally published in 1992.Right-wing investment fund dumps Target stock over ‘woke’ agenda, adds retailer to ‘refuse to buy’ listĭHS funded college program linking Fox News, NRA, RNC to neo-Nazisīoris Johnson tells Republicans why they must support Ukraine Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. ![]() Indeed, it is a highly readable and engaging book for anyone interested in the cultural life of the New World. With its rich descriptions of the book trade in both Spain and America, Books of the Brave has much to offer historians as well as literary critics. Adorno situates Leonard's work at the threshold between older, triumphalist views of Spanish conquest history and more recent perspectives engendered by studies of native American peoples. Rolena Adorno's introduction reaffirms the lasting value of Books of the Brave and chronicles developments in cultural-historical studies that have shed light on the role of books in Spanish American colonial culture. Containing a wealth of information, these lists provide the documentary evidence for what is perhaps Leonard's greatest contribution: his demonstration that royal and inquisitorial prohibitions failed to control the circulation of books and ideas in colonial Spanish America. UC Press's 1992 edition combines Leonard's text with a selection of the documents that were his most valuable sources-nine lists of books destined for the Indies. Leonard's study documents the works of fiction that accompanied and followed the conquistadores to the Americas and argues that popular texts influenced these men and shaped the way they thought and wrote about their experiences. Leonard's pioneering Books of the Brave has endured as the classic account of the introduction of literary culture to the Spanish New World. ![]() Since its original appearance in 1949, Irving A. ![]()
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