I am not a number
Title
:
I am not a number
Personal Author EPSB
:
Jenny Kay, Dupuis
Summary
:
A picture book based on a true story about a young First Nations girl who was sent to a residential school. When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis' own grandmother, I Am Not a Number brings a terrible part of Canada's history to light in a way that children can learn from and relate to.
Other Title
:
I'm not a number
Year Published
:
2016
Physical Description
:
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Note (Local)
:
Includes a special section, with photographs, about the real-life Irene and her family.
Subject
:
Indigenous peoples -- Canada.
Ojibwe people.
First Nations -- Residential schools -- Canada.
First Nations -- Ontario -- Nipissing (District).
Residential schools.
Genre
:
Picture books
Added Author
:
Kacer, Kathy, 1954-
Newland, Gillian,
Summary
:
A picture book based on a true story about a young First Nations girl who was sent to a residential school. When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis' own grandmother, I Am Not a Number brings a terrible part of Canada's history to light in a way that children can learn from and relate to.
ISBN
:
9781927583944
Publisher
:
Toronto, Ontario : Second Story Press, 2016.
©2016
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| D.S. MacKenzie | 371.8 DUP | Book | 30522000372950 | First Nations, Métis, & Inuit Resource |