Missing nimama

Titre
Missing nimama

Melanie, Florence

Sommaire
A young mother, one of the many missing indigenous women, watches over her small daughter as she grows up without her nimama, experiencing important milestones - her first day of school, first dance, first date, wedding, first child - from afar. A free verse story of love, loss, and acceptance told in alternating voices. Missing Nimama shows the human side of a tragic set of circumstances. An afterword by the author provides a simple, age-appropriate context for young readers. Includes a glossary of Cree terms.

Missing mother

Date de publication comme intervalle
2015

Description matérielle
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 29 cm

Note générale
Written in English with some key words in the Cree language.

2016 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award finalist.

Terme de vedette-matière
Grief in children -- Fiction.
 
Cree language materials.
 
Families -- Fiction.
 
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.

Genre
Picture book.
 
Canadian fiction.

Vedette secondaire auteur
Thisdale, François, 1964-

Résumé
A young mother, one of the many missing indigenous women, watches over her small daughter as she grows up without her nimama, experiencing important milestones - her first day of school, first dance, first date, wedding, first child - from afar. A free verse story of love, loss, and acceptance told in alternating voices. Missing Nimama shows the human side of a tragic set of circumstances. An afterword by the author provides a simple, age-appropriate context for young readers. Includes a glossary of Cree terms.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9780993935145

Informations de publication
Richmond Hill, ON : Clockwise Press, 2015.
 
©2015


BibliothèqueNuméro de rayonType de documentCode à barres du documentStatut
WestbrookE FLOBook30197000228039Picture Books