Indigenous Book Corner
This vibrant picture book encourages children to show love and support for each other and to consider each other's well-being in their everyday actions.
Consultant, international speaker and award-winning author Monique Gray Smith wrote You Hold Me Up to prompt a dialogue among young people, their care providers and educators about reconciliation and the importance of the connections children make with their friends, classmates and families. Monique Gray Smith is a Canadian writer of Cree, Lakota and Scottish descent based in Victoria, BC. The book is available at VPL. She has also curated this list of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children's books.
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