Just like Grandma by Kim Rogers; illus. by Julie FlettPrimary Heartdrum/HarperCollins 32 pp.1/23 9780063049246 $17.99Becca emulates her grandmother by learning to bead, painting a sunrise, and dancing at the powwow. Her grandmother joyfully shares skills, cultural traditions, and affection; in a refreshing twist, Grandma also learns from her granddaughter as...
Still This Love Goes On by Buffy Sainte-Marie; illus. by Julie Flett Primary Greystone Kids 32 pp. g 9/22 978-1-77164-807-3 $18.95 e-book ed. 978-1-77164-808-0 $18.95 Sainte-Marie’s (Cree First Nation) 2008 song about wintertime on the Cree reserve in Alberta has here been reinterpreted as a picture...
On the Trapline by David A. Robertson; illus. by Julie Flett Primary Tundra 48 pp. g 5/21 978-0-7352-6668-1 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-7352-6669-8 $10.99 From the creators of When We Were Alone (rev. 3/17) comes another powerful and affecting picture book, this one about a boy who accompanies his grandfather Moshom...
We All Play by Julie Flett; illus. by the author Preschool Greystone Kids 40 pp. g 5/21 978-1-77164-607-9 $17.95 e-book ed. 978-1-77164-608-6 $17.99 In Flett’s lively and beautifully illustrated story, animals engage in all sorts of playful behaviors, on land and in the water. Each spread depicts one or two...
I am so very grateful to everyone who is a part of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards. Kinanâskomitin, Roger Sutton. Kamâciwisimow, committee members Julie Danielson, Leo Landry, and Sujei Lugo. And a big, warm congratulations to Matthew Forsythe and Oge Mora — I am humbled to have received recognition alongside...
Welcome to Picture Book week of our first-ever, month-long virtual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration. Today, judge Sujei Lugo introduces the 2020 BGHB Picture Book Honor Book Birdsong: The 2020 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Award for Picture Book is presented to Julie Flett for Birdsong published by Greystone...
Johnny’s Pheasant by Cheryl Minnema; illus. by Julie Flett Primary Minnesota 32 pp. g 11/19 978-1-5179-0501-9 $16.95 Minnema (a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe) and Flett (of Cree-Métis descent) present an engaging and humorous intergenerational story of patience, hope, and surprise. Johnny spots a motionless pheasant in...
Birdsong by Julie Flett; illus. by the author Primary Greystone Kids 56 pp. 9/19 978-1-77164-473-0 $17.95 e-book ed. 978-1-77164-474-7 $17.95 In spring Katherena, her mother, and their dog Ôhô pack up their “little home in the city by the sea” and move to their “new home [that] sits on a...