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I Sang You Down from the Stars

I Sang You Down from the Stars

Current price: $18.99
Publication Date: April 6th, 2021
Publisher:
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
9780316493161
Pages:
32
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Description

A New York Times bestseller!

A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book

This unique baby book sings with Native cultural detail, while striking a universal chord in its celebration of the blossoming of love that comes with expecting and welcoming a new baby--with art by New York Times bestselling illustrator and Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade
  As she waits for the arrival of her new baby, a mother-to-be gathers gifts to create a sacred bundle. A white feather, cedar and sage, a stone from the river . . .

Each addition to the bundle will offer the new baby strength and connection to tradition, family, and community. As they grow together, mother and baby will each have gifts to offer each other.

Tasha Spillett-Sumner and Michaela Goade, two Indigenous creators, bring beautiful words and luminous art together in a resonant celebration of the bond between mother and child.

About the Author

Tasha Spillett-Sumner is a Cree and Trinidadian award-winning poet and author who is also working on her doctoral degree in Indigenous land-based education. She makes her home in Treaty 1 territory, Manitoba, where she raises her daughter, Isabella, with her husband.

Michaela Goade (Tlingit) is a Caldecott Medalist and a #1 New York Times bestselling artist. She is the illustrator of a number of award-winning and bestselling books, including We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom and her own Berry Song. She is from the Raven moiety and Kiks.ádi clan from Sitka, Alaska, where she currently lives. She invites you to visit her online at michaelagoade.com.

Praise for I Sang You Down from the Stars

*"Gorgeous, shimmering, heartfelt."—Kirkus

"...will make a beautiful gift for an expecting family."—Shelf Awareness

"A tender celebration of parenthood."—Publishers Weekly

"I Sang You Down From the Stars marvelously conveys not only the bonds between mother and child but also the multitude of connections that await every child—connections to family, community and Earth itself."—BookPage

"The care and love felt through the pages of the illustrations are dreamlike and ethereal."—Schoool Library Journal

"This story will be appreciated wherever newborns are celebrated."—Booklist