![]() ![]() It was named by Kirkus one of the Best Picture Books Of 2017 To Give Readers Strength (see the starred Kirkus review here).Ī little girl helps her grandfather regain the language taken from him as a child. STOLEN WORDS was written by Melanie Florence, illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard and published by Second Story Press in Oct/2017. You can find out more about Melanie at and on Twitter at mflowrites. Her other books include Righting Canada's Wrongs: Residential Schools and the teen novels He Who Dreams, The Missing, One Night, and Rez Runaway. She is the author of Missing Nimama, which won the 2016 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, the 2017 Forest of Reading Golden Oak Award and was a finalist for the 2017 First Nation Communities READ award. She was close to her grandfather as a child, a relationship that sparked her interest in writing about Aboriginal themes and characters. ![]() Melanie Florence is a writer of Cree and Scottish heritage based in Toronto. ![]()
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