by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
By the time Sienna arrives at the art table in her classroom, all the crayons are gone except dark brown and light brown. Now how can she make a special picture for the art show? Andy teases that all she’ll be able to draw is mud and dog poop. Her teacher tries to...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
Written in Anishinaabemowin and English, the story opens at harvest time. A child holds a mnoomin seed and imagines all the life that made a single seed possible — Mayfly, Pike, Muskrat, Eagle and Moose, all had a part to play in bringing the seed into being. What...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
“Being the new kid is hard,” a child in the school playground tells us. “I can think of better things to ask than if I’m a boy or a girl.” Another child is always asked why she has her nose in a book. Someone else gets asked where they come from. One after another,...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
A young child tells us what makes her angry — when someone is mean and tries to take her toy away, when it feels unfair that there’s no time to go swimming, or when the kids at school leave her out, hurting her feelings . . . When she’s angry, she tries to remember to...
