Tonya Simpson

This Land Is a Lullaby

Illustrator: Dumont, Delreé

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this gentle picture-book lullaby, the sounds of the land soothe an Indigenous child to sleep on a stormy summer night on the Plains.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orca Book Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 32
• Altersempfehlung: 3 bis 5 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 273mm x 222mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9781459836099
• ISBN-10: 145983609X
• Artikelnr.: 69839634

Autorenporträt

Tonya Simpson is of Scottish and Cree ancestry. She is a member of Pasqua First Nation and was born and raised in central Alberta. Tonya completed the MA program in anthropology at the University of Alberta and now works as a research assistant. Her first picture book, Forever Our Home, introduces readers to the animals and plants of the Prairies and the Plains. Tonya lives with her family at Pigeon Lake in Westerose, Alberta. Delreé Dumont (Wapiski Kihew Esquao / White Eagle Woman) is a proud member of Onion Lake Cree Nation, Saskatchewan. She paints in the pointillism style, depicting the natural world blended with her teachings and experiences as an Indigenous woman. She also creates smudge fans, dreamcatchers and pine-needle baskets, and she is a traditional powwow dancer. Delreé lives and works at her home studio near Revelstoke, British Columbia.