Nokum is My Teacher: French/Cree Edition: With CD (French Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (609 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 088995383X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 32 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-30 |
| Language | : | French |
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JYW said SOOOOO Beautiful!. I teach at a French Immersion school called Pierre Bottineau after a historic Minnesotan of Métis (Mixed French/Native American) heritage. I read this book and played the CD at my school. It is a sweet story with GORGEOUS illustration and fabulous music too. Love, love.
Anskohk Aboriginal Literature Festival Winner, Children's Book of the Year 2007Moonbeam Children's Book Awards, 2007 Bronze Medalist - Multicultural Picture Book CategoryAlberta Children's Book of the Year nominee 2007 Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice, 2009CD included with book!Will you walk with me, Grandmother?Will you talk with me a while?I'm finding life confusingAnd I'm looking for some answersTo questions all around meAt that school and on the street.You have always been here for me Will you help me learn to see?Nokum Is My Teacher is the poetic story of a young aboriginal boy, posing questions to his grandmother, his "Nokum", about the wider world beyond the familiarity of their home and community. Nokum offers her grandson a vision of a world he can enter thro
Sapp is a Cree Elder, and his exterior winter scenes are especially powerful in capturing the harshness of the northern winter and in reflecting the hardiness required of a People who for centuries have survived in such challenging surroundingsThe textual pages are divided into two columns, with the text in one column presented in English and, in the other column, in the Cree language. Here, a boy asks Nokum (Grandma) why he has to leave the reservation to go to school and learn to readThe art, including close-ups and panoramic scenes of Cree life through seasons and generations, shows the heartfelt bond between the boy and his beloved mentor as well as the richness of Cree life, past and present."-- Booklist"David Bouchard is firmly established as one of Canada's finest storytellers, and he further enhances his reputation with this bookBouchard skillfully captures the sense of disillusionment and irrelevanc
Visit Allen's web site at allensapp. David Bouchard has written more than fourteen books for children, including the classic If You're Not from the Prairie and Qu'Appelle. A Cree elder, he was raised by his grandmother on the Red Pheasant reserve in Saskatchewan and now calls North Battleford home. He has many years o