The Dancing Trees English Edition (FNCR 2022) Chapter Book Louis-Jacques Dorais

Louis-Jacques Dorais

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Poetry includes I Am Graffiti by Leanne Simpson

Tracing Ochre is a collaborative work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous thinkers who have a shared conviction that the present conceptions of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Beothuk requires redressing

More than thirty years ago

The Dancing Trees English Edition (FNCR 2022) Chapter Book Louis-Jacques DoraisThe Dancing Trees by Masiana Kelly, an Inuk Dene writer from Kugluktuk, NU, and illustrated by Michelle Simpson, is about Thomas who loves to tell stories. Big stories. Stories about how skilled he is on the land. But when one of his friends grows tired of his tall tales, Thomas has to prove how skilled he really is. He spends a night alone in the forest where the trees, who have heard his stories, watch him tear off their bark and litter as he goes.