Canada
We Are the Story
$35.82
- Hardcover
40 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2026
Summary
A poem by acclaimed Ojibway author Richard Wagamese is reimagined as a stunning picture book in the skilled hands of Anishinaabe artist Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley. Thoughtful, healing and hopeful, Canada is a testament to the transformative power of enduring identity and belonging.
“Listen. Can you hear the voices of the Old Ones speaking to you in a language you’ve forgotten?”
An Indigenous child struggles with a school assignment that asks, “What makes you proud to be…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781774886380 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1774886383 |
| Author: | Richard Wagamese, Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley |
| Publisher: | Tundra Books |
| Imprint: | Tundra Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 40 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 288mm x 235mm |
| Audience Age: | 3-7 |
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Critics Review
“Through a tapestry of illustrations drenched in deep color, the ancestors, at times filling the entire page with their ghostly faces, urge a new generation of Indigenous children to embrace every aspect of what it means to be themselves and to be part of something larger. Themes of belonging and inheritance are explored in images of Canada’s landscape and wildlife and in its First Nations and immigrant communities… . Through shared stories, a history and appreciation emerge that explores past and present, legacy and understanding.” —The Horn Book
“Complex, beautiful, and thought-provoking.” —School Library Journal
“From its flow of luminous colours and glowing shapes, this picture book, one of the first releases from Tundra’s new Indigenous imprint, Swift Water Books, declares itself to be what it is: momentous.” —CanLit for Little Canadians
Richard Wagamese
RICHARD WAGAMESE was a multi-award-winning Ojibway writer from Wabaseemoong First Nation in northwestern Ontario, Canada. His bestselling novels include Indian Horse, which was a Canada Reads finalist, winner of the inaugural Burt Award for First Nations, Metis and Inuit Literature and made into a feature film; and Medicine Walk. He was also the author of acclaimed memoirs, including For Joshua; One Native Life; and One Story, One Song, which won the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature; as well as a collection of personal reflections, Embers, which received the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award. He won the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Media and Communications, the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize, the Canada Reads People’s Choice Award and the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Matt Cohen Award. Richard died on March 10, 2017, in Kamloops, BC.
MANGESHIG PAWIS-STECKLEY is a multidisciplinary Anishinaabe artist and a member of Wasauksing First Nation. He is an award-winning children’s book illustrator and author whose work explores themes of language revitalization, ancestral knowledge sharing and memory. Mangeshig’s books have received a Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award, an Indigenous Voices Award and the Blue Spruce Award. His illustration for Miimaanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know (written by Brittany Luby) was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Literary Award.
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