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In this sweet and lyrical story from the creators of the bestselling Little You, gentle rhythmic text captures the wonder new parents feel as they welcome baby into the world. A celebration of the bond between parent and child, this is the perfect song to share with your little ones. 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 board book for babies and toddlers. Orca Book Publishers is pleased to offer this book as a dual-language (English and Plains Cree) edition. This accessible audiobook features alternate text descriptions of images, including the cover.

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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

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Richard Van Camp is a proud member of the Tlicho Dene Nation 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 is the author of over twenty books in just about every genre, including Little You and Welcome Song for Baby. His novel The Lesser Blessed is now a movie with First Generation Films. Julie Flett studied fine arts at Concordia University in Montreal and Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver. She won the Governor General's Award for Children's Literature for her work on When We Were Alone by David Robertson, and her book Birdsong won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. She is the three-time recipient of the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Award for Owls See Clearly at Night: A Michif Alphabet, Dolphin SOS and My Heart Fills With Happiness. Julie is Cree and Metis and lives in Vancouver. Mary Cardinal Collins is a semi-retired teacher, fluent Cree speaker and translator. 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. Heather Gould is an entrepreneur, artist and voice actor from Victoria, British Columbia. As a first-language speaker of Plains Cree (nehiyawewin), translator Dolores Greyeyes Sand has devoted her career to teaching and promoting Cree language and cultural literacy at every opportunity, proudly following the path laid by her late mother, Dr Freda Ahenakew CM, SOM.

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