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Nimoshom and His Bus

March 1, 2018 | Children's hardcover
ISBN: 9781553797081
$19.95
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Description

In this warm and joyful picture book highly recommended by Debbie Reese, children learn Cree from Nimoshom, their school bus driver.

Based on the author's memories of her grandfather, Nimoshom is not your average bus driver. He loves to drive the school bus, tell silly stories, and share his language with the kids who ride his bus.

Nimoshom and His Bus introduces readers to common Cree words and phrases alongside the common childhood experience of riding the school bus. A Cree word list is included in the back of the book.

About this Author

Penny M. Thomas, of Cree-Ojibway background, believes in approaching healing from all directions, with storytelling key to this purpose. Her first book for children, Powwow Counting in Cree, was winner of the McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award. She is an advocate for First Nations people and works in the field of psychology and therapy.

Karen Hibbard is a freelance illustrator who draws on a long career as a visual artist. Karen has illustrated picture books for Planète rebelle (Montréal), Annick Press (Toronto) as well as several activity books for youth with Éditions Mango on behalf of the Musée d'Orsay.

ISBN: 9781553797081
Format: Children's hardcover
Pages: 32
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Published: 2018-03-01

Reviews

Part language primer, part loving tribute, this picture book adds up to a lovely addition for most library collections.

 

We're always delighted by books by Native writers--especially ones set in the present. The straightforward text is terrific. Hibbard's illustrations perfectly capture the warmth and joy of the kids on that bus, and the guy who drives their bus. I highly recommend Nimoshom and His Bus! It'd be a simple thing to use other Native words in addition to-or instead of-the Cree words in the book.

...a rhythmic pacing and a conversational quality that makes for an enjoyable read-aloud experience...loose, expressive mixed-media illustrations capture the warm relationship between nimoshom and the children...

A simple but endearing glimpse of Cree language and life.

Through accessible language and engaging visual resources, readers are introduced to basic Cree as Nimoshom responds in this language to the children who ride his bus. Amidst a rural fall setting, with woodland animals, children, and the school bus, Nimoshom's humorous nature shines through these gentle illustrations.

A sweet introduction to some simple Cree words in the context of a common-place activity for many children. Karen Hibbard, who uses watercolours and pastels to create a gentle background for Nimoshom's day on his bus, gives the story a grassroots mood, highly appropriate for a routine day of activity and interaction for this bus driver and his charges. It's very relatable.

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