![]() ![]() Illustrator’s agent: Kirsten Hall, Catbird Productions. Author’s agent: Kathleen Rushall, Andrea Brown Literary. A passionate call for environmental stewardship. WE STAND!” An author’s note traces the story’s genesis to the 2016 Standing Rock protests in the Dakotas. And the girl doesn’t just participate in protest she stands at the front, carrying a feather in one hand, as other protestors answer her call. “The plants, trees, rivers, lakes.”-Goade pulls back to view the Earth from space studded with stars-“We are all related.” Observation is not enough, the book communicates: action is necessary. The girl tells of the arrival of an oil pipeline, the “black snake” that will “spoil the water./ Poison plants and animals./ Wreck everything in its path.” The half-bleached figures of a bird and a fish lie next to the pipeline leaking black sludge. Bold strokes of light, limpid color wash across layered spreads by Tlingit and Haida artist Goade ( Encounter). Carole Lindstrom, who is a memeber of the Turtle Mountian Band of the Ojibwe, said she wrote this book in part due to the protest that were happeing in Standng Rock and the many issues with pipelines. In Ojibwe culture women are water protectors. I really loved the bright vibrant colors she used. Michaela Goade's illustrations are beautiful. Water is sacred,” the white-haired woman tells her. 4/5: This is the 2021 Caldecott Award winner. ![]() ![]() The words are spoken by a child who’s shown first with her grandmother: “Water is the first medicine. Metis/Ojibwe author Lindstrom ( Girls Dance, Boys Fiddle) honors those who fight to protect the Earth’s fresh water. ![]()
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