This book, written by Carole Lindstorm and illustrated by Michaela Goade, is incredibly vibrant and moving. A must read that fosters a love for the world and everything in it. The pocket summary perfectly words a depiction of this book:
"Water is the first medicine.
It affects and connects us all...
When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth's most sacred resource."
This book gives readers the fruitful opportunity of facilitating amazingly rich and engaging conversations about environmental issues, protests, and legislation associated with the Dakota Access Pipeline and is applicable to many other topic. The combination of little, yet moving text and detailed and elaborate illustrations make this book engaging for all ages of readers.
Carole Lindstorm is a name widely known as someone who speaks of her own experiences and works to educate others of issues in the world, including the fight for clean water for indigenous people. Carole herself is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe. She, being an indigenous person herself, validates and authenticates the text she wrote from the perspective of a young girl of an indigenous village. Her and the illustrators collaborations to create a text that is authentic and represents the people accurately and respectfully. I trust the two of them to have carefully molded this text into an accurate representation of the target people.
Link to the author's website: http://www.carolelindstrom.com/
Link to the illustrator's website: https://www.michaelagoade.com/
"Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created and recreated by the author. When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. Reading, then becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirrors in books."
Rudine Sims Bishop (1990, p. ix)
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