Shin-chi’s Canoe

Shin-chi’s Canoe

This moving sequel to the award-winning Shi-shi-etko tells the story of two children’s experiences at residential school. Shi-shi-etko is about to return for her second year, but this time her six-year-old brother, Shin-chi, is going, too. As they begin their journey...
Two White Rabbits

Two White Rabbits

In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the US border. They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn’t know where they are going. She...
Tokyo Digs a Garden

Tokyo Digs a Garden

Highways and skyscrapers have taken over the wilderness that once flourished around the house where Tokyo lives with his family and his cat. But one day, an old woman offers Tokyo three seeds, telling him they will grow into whatever he wishes…
Three Brothers

Three Brothers

This gentle adventure story about the effects of climate change ends on a hopeful note. Finn and his younger brothers, Leo and Ooley, love reading stories about animals living in forests, on mountains or in the arctic. “When I grow up,” says Finn, “I want to be an...
Sometimes I Feel Like a River

Sometimes I Feel Like a River

In each of twelve short poems, a child tells us how or why they feel like the sun, a river, a mountain, a cloud, the rain, a forest and more. Their deeply felt connections and identification with these wonders point to how much we are all part of the natural world....