I Sang You Down Stars Book Artist: Various Artists

Artist: Various Artists

winner of the 2018 American Indian Youth Literature Best Picture Book Award

Nan reluctantly agrees to tell her the story

The images created by Andy Everson allow readers to imagine the meetings between the chief and his animal cousins

When award-winning writer David Bouchard first saw the work of First Nations artist Roy Henry Vickers

I Sang You Down Stars Book Artist: Various ArtistsDimensions: 9. 50 x 10. 20 Drawing from Indigenous creation stories and traditional teachings and illustrated in dazzling water colours, I Sang You Down from the Stars is a tribute to the bond between mother and child. The narrator gathers gifts for a medicine bundle in anticipation of her babys birth; a fluffy white eagle plume, bunches of cedar and sage, a quilted star blanket, and a small stone from the river. When the baby arrives, the mother