One of my favorite authors, Nicola Campbell, has a new book out. Titled
Grandpa's Girls, I can't wait to see it! Here's the blurb from Groundwood (the publisher):
A young girl delights in a visit to her grandpa's farm. She and her
cousins run through the fields, explore the root cellar where the salmon
and jars of fruit are stored, swing on a rope out the barn loft window,
visit the Appaloosa in the corral and tease the neighbor's pig. The
visit is also an opportunity for this child to ask Grandpa what her
grandmother, Yayah, was like, and to explore the "secret room," with its
old wooden trunk of ribbons, medals and photos of Grandpa in uniform.
Nicola's two previous picture books are set in Canada and are about Native families and the boarding schools Native children in the US and Canada were sent to---not by choice---to learn how not to be Native. Pick up a copy of each one:
Shi-shi-etko and
Shin-shi's Canoe, and look for
Grandpa's Girls! I think my dear friend, Jean, is gonna love it... Here's the cover:
