by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
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...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
This simple story in Cree and English explores a young child’s relationship to his grandmother, or nôhkom, as they go for a walk in the woods to pick rosehips. The young boy follows his grandmother, walking, listening, praying, picking and eating, just as she does. In...
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
Tess has visited her grandmother many times without really being aware of the garden. But today they step outside the door and Tess learns that all of nature can be a garden. And if you take care of the plants that are growing, if you learn about them — understanding...
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...
