Fall Preview 2017: Books for Young People – Quill and Quire

• Orca Book Publishers has tagged Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation as one of its big titles for the season. Written by Monique Gray Smith, the book teaches young readers about the residential school system, and introduces survivors and people who are putting the recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commision into practice.
• Simon Fraser University archaeology professor Eldon Yellowhorn and former Tundra Books publisher Kathy Lowinger give a pre-colonial view of Indigenous history going all the way back to the ice age in Turtle Island: The Story of North America’s First People (Annick Press).
• Sisters Angnakuluk Friesen and Ippiksaut Friesen team up to write and illustrate, respectively, the bilingual Inuktitut–English picture book Kisimi Taimaippaktut Angirrarijarani/Only in My Hometown (Groundwood Books), translated by Jean Kusugak. The three women from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, explain the traditions and ways of life growing up in a small Inuit community.

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