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Anskohk Aboriginal Literature Festival Winner, Children's Book of the Year 2007
Moonbeam Children's Book Awards, 2007 Bronze Medalist
- Multicultural Picture Book Category
Alberta Children's Book of the Year nominee 2007
CD included with book!
Will you walk with me, Grandmother?
Will you talk with me a while?
I'm finding life confusing
And I'm looking for some answers
To questions all around me
At that school and on the street.
You have always been here for me
Will you help me learn to see?
Nokum Is My Teacher is the poetic story of a young aboriginal boy, posing questions to his grandmother, his "Nokum", about the wider world beyond the familiarity of their home and community. Through a series of questions, Nokum guides her grandson towards an understanding of his need to fit into and learn more about this large world beyond the reserve. Nokum offers her grandson a vision of a world he can enter through imagination and reading, while retaining respect for the ways of his people. By the conclusion of the book, the young grandson has learned many new ideas from his grandmother and discovered his own wisdom in dealing with the changes in his life.
Nokum Is My Teacher is a delightfully packaged book and audio CD, combining the written text in English and Cree with the mesmerizing voice of author/storyteller extraordinaire David Bouchard. It is illustrated by the hauntingly beautiful artworks of Allan Sapp, Cree elder, Governor General's Award-winner, and Officer of the Order of Canada. The singing and drumming are done by Alberta'sNorthern Cree, who have been nominated for a Grammy Award (2007) in the 'Native American music album' category.
Nokum Is My Teacher is also available in French/Cree text and audio as Nokum: Ma Voix et Mon Coeur.
This is the first of a series of aboriginal books David Bouchard is developing with Red Deer Press.
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| $99.99 | Digital |
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Khary Bethea
reviewed Nokum Is My Teacher on April 25, 2019
Nokum Is My Teacher
A young Cree boy questions the necessity of learning to read and studying outside ways in this thoughtful bilingual picture-book, with text in both English and Cree. He wonders what use he will have for the skills taught in school, and asks whether whites have any reciprocal interest in the Cree culture. His wise Nokum, or grandmother, responds to each of his queries with a question of her own, helping him to think through the issues for himself.
Like David Bouchard's more recent The Drum Calls Softly , Nokum Is My Teacher includes a CD containing a narration of both the English and Cree versions of the story, together with singing and drumming by the pow-wow group, Northern Cree. This is quite helpful for those, like me, who have never heard Cree spoken aloud, and would have no idea how to pronounce the written words. The "background" sounds reflect what's happening in Allen Sapp's illustrations, which depict the young boy and his Nokum on a sleigh ride through a winter landscape. Well worth the time of any reader, young or old, with an interest in this First Nation people, or in the broader question of cross-cultural learning and exchange!
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