Dad, I Miss You (HC) Cultural/Traditional Lifestyle beautiful stones

beautiful stones

and of the known and the mysterious

‘Picking Up the Pieces: Residential School Memories and the Making of the Witness Blanket’ tells the story of the making of the Witness Blanket

he illustrates the relationship Indigenous peoples have with their lands

and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people

Dad, I Miss You (HC) Cultural/Traditional Lifestyle beautiful stonesWritten by Nadia Sammurtok, an Inuit writer and educator, originally from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. Illustrated by Simji Park. Based on the authors family history of residential school separation. Told in the voice of a boy and his father by turns, this book takes a thoughtful and heartfelt look at the emotional toll of a child being taken from their family and community to attend residential school. While the childs internal monologue expresses his