When Elisapee’s father brings home a baby seagull, Elisapee falls in love with the bird right away. She feeds and cares for her new friend, named Nau, and even helps Nau learn how to fly! Soon, it seems like Nau is ready to leave home for good, and Elisapee has …
Hardcover, 36 pages Published 2017 by Inhabit Media Inc. Source: Publisher Nalvana feels like all of her friends have some type of superpower. She has friends with super speed (who always beat her in races), friends with super strength (who can dangle from the monkey bars for hours), and friends who …
Award-winning First Nations author Larry Loyie shares the drama of his childhood during the Second World War years. As a young Cree boy, Lawrence struggles to grow up while wrestling with the meaning of war. When army runaways threaten his family, he must call on his skills and the teachings …
wanisin (she is lost) Missing Nimâma is a difficult book to read without weeping, and a difficult book to write about for much the same reason: it is the story of Kateri Cardinal, a Cree girl whose mother is lost – one of the 1181+ Indigenous women who have been …
Shin-chi’s Canoe is the sequel to Nicola Campbell and Kim LaFave’s Shi-shi-etko, a Canadian picturebook classic set in the last days before Shi-shi-etko goes to residential school. In Shin-chi’s Canoe, Shi-shi-etko’s younger brother, now six years old, joins her at school. Seemingly at once slow but swift like the water near the …
The opening skit of the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival (2017) in Mineapolis, starring James Kennedy, Keir Graff, and Kelly Barnhill pokes fun at what Kennedy calls “this weird tendency to kill animals in children’s books.” Kennedy describes the skit: A devil’s-bargain device is revealed, Kate DiCamillo is affectionately denounced, there …
Paula Ikuutaq’s retelling of the Inuit Legend of Lightning and Thunder opens with a celebration. It is spring, and Inuit people gather together in camps to sing, to dance, and to feast: to share their happiness with each other. Two orphaned siblings, however, are not so happy. A girl and her younger …
Friday morning. Maybe from now on my life is going to be like that of any other kid my age. Maybe I really can have friends and not have to move to a new town every six months. Maybe things are finally going to be normal for me. Or at …
Debbie Reese notes the death of librarian, author, and activist Doris Seale earlier this year, and provides a bibliography of her writings on Indigenous peoples in children’s literature.
Susan Currie’s The Mask That Sang is the story of Cass, who is twelve years old and moving into a house of her own, inherited from a completely unknown grandmother. Cass is pleased to leave the bullies in her old school behind, but her mother is unhappy at accepting anything …
