Abalone Woman

 

Abalone Woman

By Teoni Spathelfer

Abalone Woman is the third book in the Little Wolf series for young readers. Here, Little Wolf has a bad dream but it reminds her to learn more about Indigenous culture and the importance of passing on knowledge to the new generation. When Little Wolf encounters injustice in her community, she turns to her family for the strength to fight back.

Local author Spathelfer has all three picturebooks at the Richmond Public Library:

Abuelita and Me

 

Abuelita and Me

By Leonarda Carranza

An empowering story of a girl and her grandmother travelling by bus across the city when racist slurs are directed at the grandmother, Abuelita. How the two decide to react to this situation gives an example of a way to maintain dignity and respond with positivity when someone is being mean. 

Out Into the Big Wide Lake

Out Into the Big Wide Lake

by Paul Harbridge

Kate is going to visit her grandparents on the lake for summer, just as her mother did when she was Kate's age. Except Kate has Down's Syndrome, so will she be able to travel on her own and be without her parents for an entire summer?

The story is full of details and juicy language - "puck, puck, puck! Out into the big wide lake" It's here where Kate helps her grandfather make deliveries by boat and where Kate learned from her grandmother how to drive the little boat.

One day, Kate's grandfather is sick. Can Kate make the deliveries all by herself? Well, let's give it a try and see!!

Hello, Rain!

Hello, Rain!

By Kyo Maclear and Chris Turnham

"Every rainfall plays a different tune." This ode to the rainstorm is celebratory and sweet. It will remind us to embrace those rainy days, splashing in puddles and cozying up indoors. 

Repetitive text is arranged poetically: "Rumble rumble./Distant thunder./Rain is coming,/rain is coming." while retro illustrations carrying a printmaking quality are whimsical and quite pretty. 

Nostalgia and fun, all wrapped up in this evocative picturebook that engages the senses.