Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know: Niibing, dgwaagig, bboong, mnookmig dbaadjigaade maanpii mzinigning / A Book about the Seasons | 
pick#SummerSouls Day 24: This beautiful book tells you when it is summer: “When #insects billow black from the trees, and the sun slips into an orange dream.
This is how I know summer.”
The entire picturebook is a testament to this wide-eyed attention to the little details found in the passing of the seasons. As Mary Oliver noted: “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-qnb
pickConcepts of seasons and colours are presented in this charming dual-language picture book created by an Anishinaabe team from Ontario. Some #Indigenous children will find a familiar northern landscape, while other young readers will learn about a way of life different from their own. Any child might enjoy spending time searching for the creatures on each double-page spread, all while mastering vocabulary. #Canadian #kidlit #picturebook
When Loon opens her red eyes / to call across the water / and green Luna Moth hides / among birch leaves.
When yellow Bumblebee collects purple / fireweed with me / and we spy brown Screech Owl / asleep in the tree.
When blueberries drop readily / and the sand is hot enough to sting.
When insects billow black from the trees / and the sun slips into an orange dream.
This is how I know summer.
A closeup of this picture book‘s digital artwork by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley, an Ojibwe woodland artist and member of Wasauksing First Nation. #Indigenous #kidlit
