Indigenous

You Hold Me Up / Tú me sostienes

An evocative picture book intended to foster empathy among children and encourage them to show each other love and support. In English and Spanish.

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You Hold Me Up

An evocative board book intended to foster empathy among children and encourage them to show each other love and support.

Otter Doesn’t Know

In this picture book featuring Coast Salish art and Traditional Storytelling techniques, a salmon and an otter learn to help each other even though they don't have all the answers.

Indigenous Art Colouring & Activity Book

A new collection of Indigenous art to enjoy and colour.

Pineshish, The Blue Jay

A blue jay called Pineshish is wounded and needs help. Trees should provide shelter, but not every tree wants to, only the pine tree does. Mother nature then punishes the selfish trees. They will lose their leaves in the fall from now on.

Haywaas' Question

The process of discovering the meaning of reconciliation Haywaas experiences is relatable, understandable, and aptly builds up to an answer we’re all a part of.

We Belong to the Drum

A child at daycare—away from his family for the first time—finds belonging through the music of the powwow drum, in this illustrated picture book.

We Belong to the Drum / mistikwaskihk kitipêyimikonaw

In this dual-language illustrated picture book, a child who's away from his family for the first time at daycare finds belonging through the music of the powwow drum. In English and Plains Cree.

Forever Our Home / kâkikê kîkinaw

This gentle picture-book lullaby, in both Plains Cree and English, is a celebration of the plants and animals of the Prairies and the Plains and a meditation on the sacred, ancestral connections between Indigenous children and their Traditional Territories.

The Secret Pocket

This illustrated nonfiction picture book tells the true story of how a resilient group of girls at a residential school sewed secret pockets into their clothes to hide food.

Dig Deep

This nonfiction book introduces middle-grade readers to marine archaeology. Illustrated with photographs throughout, in this book young people will discover how understanding our ancient ancestors' relationships with the ocean can help the planet today and in the future.

In Our Traditional Territory

Monica shares all about her travels to her Traditional Territory.

Weird Rules to Follow

In this novel for middle readers told in vignettes, Mia and her best friend, Lara, have very different experiences growing up in a northern fishing community in the 1980s.

I Hope / nipakosêyimon

This beautifully illustrated dual-language picture book, written by award-winning Indigenous author Monique Gray Smith, explores all the hopes adults have for the children in their lives. In English and Plains Cree.

J’espère

Cet album aux illustrations magnifiques, écrit par l’autrice autochtone primée Monique Gray Smith, fait un survol des espoirs que les adultes nourrissent pour les enfants de leur vie.

We Sang You Home / kikî-kîwê-nikamôstamâtinân

This dual-language book celebrates baby and welcomes them into the world. In English and Plains Cree.

Love Your Creator

The true story of a song remembered, then reclaimed, from the author's time in residential school.

Little You / kiya kâ-apisîsisiyan

This dual-language, poetic book for babies and toddlers celebrates every child and the joy babies bring into the world. In English and Plains Cree.

The Witness Blanket

This nonfiction book for middle-grade readers, illustrated with photographs, tells the story of the making of the Witness Blanket, a work by Indigenous artist Carey Newman that includes items from every residential school in Canada and stories from the Survivors who donated them.

A Dance Through the Seasons

Young Woman learns her traditional ways of living across a full year with the help of an animal guide.

Okanagan Women’s Voices

A direct window into the lives of settlers and Indigenous Peoples in eras of upheaval, uncertainty and reform, this collection is a much-needed lens into histories too often told by the colonial state.

Little You / Gidagaashiinh

This dual-language, poetic picture book for babies and toddlers celebrates every child and the joy babies bring into the world. In English and Anishinaabemowin.

You Hold Me Up / Gimanaadenim

An evocative picture book intended to foster empathy among children and encourage them to show each other love and support. In English and Anishinaabemowin.