Children's Fiction Native Canadian
Black Bear Red Fox
Colours in Cree
- Publisher
- Native Northwest
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2017
- Category
- Native Canadian
- Recommended Age
- 0 to 4
- Recommended Grade
- p
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Board book
- ISBN
- 9781554765218
- Publish Date
- Jan 2017
- List Price
- $12
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Description
Julie Flett is a Vancouver-based Cree/Metis author, visual artist and illustrator. Julie creates stories for children that subtly explore the connections between language, culture and nature.
About the author
Julie Flett is an award-winning Cree-Metis author, illustrator and artist. She has received many awards, including the 2016 American Indian Library Association Award for Best Picture Book for Little You, written by Richard Van Camp (Orca Books), and the Canadian Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Award in 2015 for Dolphins SOS, written by Roy Miki (Tradewind Books) and in 2017 for My Heart Fills with Happiness, written by Monique Gray Smith (Orca Books), and was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature for her book Owls See Clearly at Night (Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer): A Michif Alphabet (L’alphabet di Michif). Her own Wild Berries (Simply Read Books) was chosen as Canada’s First Nation Communities Read title selection for 2014-2015.
www.julieflett.com