You Hold Me Up

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

About the author

Monique Gray Smith is an award-winning, bestselling author and public speaker. Her books cover a broad spectrum of ages, topics and emotions. Woven into all of Monique's writing and her speaking engagements is the teaching that Love is Medicine. Her books include Speaking our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation, My Heart Fills With Happiness, You Hold Me Up, Lucy and Lola, Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, Tilly and the Crazy Eights, When We Are Kind and I Hope. She has also created the young adult adaptation of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Monique is Cree and Scottish. She lives with her family on the Traditional Territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən and WSÁNEĆ Peoples.

Product details

• Authors: Danielle Daniel, Monique Gray Smith
• Assisted by: Danielle Daniel (Illustration), Angela Mesic (Translation), Margaret Noodin (Translation)
• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Languages: English, Ojibwa
• Age Recommendation: ages 3 to 5
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781459827196
• ISBN: 978-1-4598-2719-6
• No. of pages: 32
• Dimensions: 206 mm x 208 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 324 g
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Kinder/Jugendliche: Familienromane, Kinder/Jugendliche: Persönliche und soziale Themen: Emotionen, Stimmungen und Gefühle, Children's Books / Ages 4-8 Fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Themes), JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship