Then she starts to realize that they don't match.

Izzy has a warm and loving relationship with her mother. It was released October 18, 2022, by Owl Books. Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this beautiful picture book. Lyrical text and warm, lively illustrations show Izzy’s journey as she learns to celebrate the differences that make her uniquely beautiful, and the connection to her mother that transcends physical traits.

This story about a multiracial child navigating identity and belonging draws from author Tasha Spillett-Sumner’s own experience growing up as an Afro-Indigenous girl. Finding lessons from nature and repeating her affirming message, Mama encourages Izzy to see her own unique beauty. I’m beautiful like me, and you’re beautiful like you. She wants to be beautiful like Mama! But Mama addresses Izzy’s disappointment with a gentle, loving refrain: You’re part of me, and I’m part of you. When Izzy realizes she’s different from Mama in other ways, too, she feels sad and confused.

One night, cuddled up on Mama’s lap, Izzy notices something she’s never noticed before: her skin is the color of chocolate, but Mama’s skin is the color of sand. Izzy’s favorite place to be is in Mama’s arms-skin to skin, safe and warm. Writing in simple, lyrical text, author Tasha Spillett-Sumner draws from her cultural heritage in order to celebrate Indigenous traditions and the universal nature of a mother’s love, with stunning art by the 2021 Caldecott medal winner for We Are Water Protectors, Michela Goade.A child who looks different from her mother finds beauty and belonging in this new book from the creator of New York Times bestseller I Sang You Down from the Stars. But when her family comes to meet the new arrival, she realizes the baby arrived with gifts of its own and that the baby is also a sacred bundle: a baby bundle.

When the baby arrives, the mother shares the bundle with her child and reveals the importance of each item inside. The narrator gathers gifts for a medicine bundle in anticipation of her baby’s birth a fluffy white eagle plume, bunches of cedar and sage, a quilted star blanket, and a small stone from the river. Nanoloft Flame Fire-Resistant Travel BlanketsĪ New York Times and CBC Books bestselling #OwnVoices love letter from an Indigenous mother to her new baby, new from celebrated author Tasha Spillett-Sumner and 2021 Caldecott winning illustrator Michaela Goade, that honours the beauty of a little one's arrivalĭrawing from Indigenous creation stories and traditional teachings and illustrated in dazzling watercolours, I Sang You Down from the Stars is a tribute to the bond between mother and child. RAD Rumpl Artist Division Series Blankets

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