Residential Schools from a Child's Perspective

Picture books have powerful but gentle ways of deconstructing difficult topics making it accessible for all of us but especially our little ones. In this virtual storytime, children will learn about Canada's history of Residential Schools.

Ms. Shannon will share the emotional story, Shin-Chi’s Canoe by Nicola I. Campbell. The book is beautifully illustrated by Kim LaFave and published by Groundwood Books House of Anansi Press.

If you would like more age appropriate books to help explain the residential school system, we would be happy to put a Grab n' Go bag together for you. Connect with us at
infolibrary@orangeville.ca or 519-941-0610

Summary:
Winner of the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and finalist for the Governor General's Award: Children's Illustration, this moving sequel to the award-winning Shi-shi-etko tells the story of two children's experience at residential school. Shi-shi-etko is about to return for her second year, but this time her six-year-old brother, Shin-chi, is going, too.

As they begin their journey in the back of a cattle truck, Shi-shi-etko tells her brother all the things he must remember: the trees, the mountains, the rivers and the salmon. Shin-chi knows he won't see his family again until the sockeye salmon return in the summertime. When they arrive at school, Shi-shi-etko gives him a tiny cedar canoe, a gift from their father.

The children's time is filled with going to mass, school for half the day, and work the other half. The girls cook, clean and sew, while the boys work in the fields, in the woodshop and at the forge. Shin-chi is forever hungry and lonely, but, finally, the salmon swim up the river and the children return home for a joyful family reunion.

Borrow it here: https://olco.ent.sirsidynix.net/client/en_US/orangeville/search/results?qu=Campbell%2C+Nicola+I.

Видео Residential Schools from a Child's Perspective канала Orangeville Public Library, ON