Mii Maanda Ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know - (Groundwood books, 2021)
Brittany Luby/ Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley
In this lyrical story-poem, written in Anishinaabemowin and English, a child and grandmother explore their surroundings, taking pleasure in the familiar sights that each new season brings.
We accompany them through warm summer days full of wildflowers, bees and blueberries, then fall, when bears feast before hibernation and forest mushrooms are ripe for harvest. Winter mornings begin in darkness as deer, mice and other animals search for food, while spring brings green shoots poking through melting snow and the chirping of peepers.
Brittany Luby and Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley have created a book inspired by childhood memories of time spent with Knowledge Keepers, observing and living in relationship with the natural world in the place they call home — the northern reaches of Anishinaabewaking, around the Great Lakes.
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Awards
Winner, Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award, 2022
Short-listed, Indigenous Voices Awards — Published work in an Indigenous Language, 2022
Short-listed, Governor General’s Literary Awards for Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books, 2021
Commended, Cooperative Children’s Book Center Book of the Week, 2021
Commended, CCBC Choices, 2022