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""A beautiful welcome and a thank you to the Indigenous child who brings joy into the parents' lives.""--School Library Journal In this sweet and lyrical picture book from the creators of the bestselling Little You, gentle rhythmic text captures the wonder new parents feel as they welcome baby into the world. Internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author Richard Van Camp teams up with award-winning illustrator Julie Flett for a second time to create a stunning book for young readers. A celebration of the bond between parent and child, this is the perfect song to share with your little ones. Orca Book Publishers is pleased to offer this bilingual book (full text in both English and Plains Cree) in two accessible editions. The audiobook features alternate text descriptions of images, including the cover. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible. Praise for Little You by Richard Van Camp and Julie Flett: ★ ""Van Camp composes a lyrical ode to a newborn child, which is matched in its loveliness by Flett's exquisite, collage-like images of a young one with his or her parents.""--Publishers Weekly, starred review

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A beautiful welcome and a thank you to the Indigenous child who brings joy into the parents' lives. -- School Library Journal A sweet and loving board book...The parents' certainty that their baby is 'the best of all of us' is an affirmation every baby should hear. -- Kirkus Reviews A great strength of this book is that it is nonspecific and inclusive enough to encompass all new babies--arriving through birth, fostering, or adoption--and it does not specify gender...The whole message is one of love, welcome, and completion now that the young one has joined the family. The eye-catching illustrations hint at a non-specific non-white race for the family (could be Asian, First Nations, Inuit, etc.), making this book inclusive and encompassing of Canada's ethnic diversity...It is a book of thankfulness and hope that would make a wonderful addition to the preschool collection in a library. Highly recommended.-- Resource Links Babies and toddlers love to be loved, and they will also love to see themselves and their parents reflected in the beautiful pages of this book.-- Canadian Children's Book News The emotions of parenthood--including feelings of love, elation, and gratitude--are certain to be conveyed to [children] by the parents who share this tale with them. A lovely picture book that will resonate with parents and show young readers the profound, positive impact they have on their parents' lives.-- School Library Journal Both Van Camp's words and Flett's illustrations are economical, but We Sang You Home is not a quick read. Instead, each of the paired pages of text and illustration truly demands that the reader pause and reflect on the pages' contents. Highly recommended.-- CM Magazine

Author Information

Internationally renowned storyteller and award-winning author Richard Van Camp is a proud member of the Tlı̨chǫ Dene from Fort Smith, Northwest Territories. A graduate of the En'owkin International School of Writing, the University of Victoria's BFA in Creative Writing program and the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, Richard has written over twenty-six books in just about every genre, including Little You and We Sang You Home, both beautifully illustrated by Julie Flett. He lives in Edmonton. The Cree Literacy Network was created in 2010 to promote Cree language and cultural literacy, in oral form and through literacy materials. Through the essential tool of standard spelling, the Cree Literacy Network supports the fundamental right of Cree speakers to understand and be understood.

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