Tonya Simpson
2024 |
Juvenile Fiction

Key Selling Points Written as a lullaby for the author’s daughter, this book is an exploration of the spiritual relationship between children, ancestors and the land. Lyrical language evokes the sights and sounds of a summer storm on a prairie evening and conveys a powerful message of reconciliation and reclamation, as ancestors dance and sing a song to a child, who drifts into a peaceful sleep. Author and Indigenous anthropologist Tonya Simpson is Scottish and Cree and a member of the Pasqua First Nation. This is her second book following Forever Our Home. Artist Delreé Dumont, from Onion Lake Cree Nation, evokes the movement of the land through stunning pointillism illustrations. Also available in an English-only edition.

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This Land Is a Lullaby / cistomâwasowin ôma askiy