Synopsis
Summary
An Anishinaabe child and her grandmother explore the natural wonders of each season in this bilingual story-poem. The reader accompanies them through warm summer days full of wildflowers, bees and blueberries, and into fall, when bears feast before hibernation and forest mushrooms are ripe for harvest. Winter mornings begin in darkness as deer, mice and other animals search for food, while spring brings green shoots poking through melting snow and the chirping of peepers. In each season, the child and her grandmother take pleasure in the natural world and the familiar sights of its rhythms.
Notable Achievements
Winner, Indigenous Voices Award, 2022; Winner, Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award, 2022; Short-listed, Governor General’s Literary Awards for Young People’s Literature, Illustrated Books, 2021; Nominee, First Nation Communities Read, 2022
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Educator Guide
This guide, created by Groundwood Books, includes pre-reading questions as well as post-reading discussion prompts and activities.
