This Land Is a Lullaby / Cistomâwasowin Ôma Askiy

In this gentle picture-book lullaby written in both Plains Cree and English, the sounds of the land soothe an Indigenous child to sleep on a stormy summer night on the Plains.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Tonya Simpson is of Scottish and Cree ancestry. She is a member of Pasqua First Nation and was born and raised in central Alberta. Tonya completed the MA program in anthropology at the University of Alberta and now works as a research assistant. Her first picture book, Forever Our Home, introduces readers to the animals and plants of the Prairies and the Plains. Tonya lives with her family at Pigeon Lake in Westerose, Alberta.

Delreé Dumont (Wapiski Kihew Esquao / White Eagle Woman) is a proud member of Onion Lake Cree Nation, Saskatchewan. She paints in the pointillism style, depicting the natural world blended with her teachings and experiences as an Indigenous woman. She also creates smudge fans, dreamcatchers and pine-needle baskets, and she is a traditional powwow dancer. Delreé lives and works at her home studio near Revelstoke, British Columbia.
Dorothy Thunder is a Plains Cree (nêhiyawiskwêw) from Little Pine First Nation, Saskatchewan and full-time Cree instructor in Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Tonya Simpson
• Mitarbeit: Delreé Dumont (Illustration), Dorothy Thunder (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Orca Book Publishers
• Sprache: Cree-Sprache, Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: 3 bis 5 Jahre
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 17.09.2024
• EAN: 9781459838475
• ISBN: 978-1-4598-3847-5
• Seiten: 32
• Abmessung: 226 mm x 277 mm x 8 mm
• Gewicht: 386 g
• Thema: Kinder- und Jugendbücher > Vorlesebücher, Märchen, Sagen, Reime, Lieder