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A review by bookdrgn
Stolen Words by Melanie Florence
5.0
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It's unthinkable that a small 13 page picture book could impact so deeply.
Stolen Words tells the story of a little girl full of dreams and love for her grandfather.
She asks him, one day when he picks her up from school, how to say "Grandfather" in Cree. He tells her the tragic story of being taken from home and beaten until they spoke white. She gifts him her dreamcatcher so he might dream of his soft words again.
This precocious little girl goes to school the next day and finds a book on Cree in the school library and presents it to her Grandfather. Who reads and remembers his words, his mother and promises to read to her in Cree.
This was a beautiful little book that should be in every school library.
The illustrations were incredible and very evocative. I especially loved the image of their words coming out of their mouths to be locked in a cage. It was heart wrenching.
The bond between Grandfather and Granddaughter is clearly a special one, easily discernable within this short book.
It's unthinkable that a small 13 page picture book could impact so deeply.
Stolen Words tells the story of a little girl full of dreams and love for her grandfather.
She asks him, one day when he picks her up from school, how to say "Grandfather" in Cree. He tells her the tragic story of being taken from home and beaten until they spoke white. She gifts him her dreamcatcher so he might dream of his soft words again.
This precocious little girl goes to school the next day and finds a book on Cree in the school library and presents it to her Grandfather. Who reads and remembers his words, his mother and promises to read to her in Cree.
This was a beautiful little book that should be in every school library.
The illustrations were incredible and very evocative. I especially loved the image of their words coming out of their mouths to be locked in a cage. It was heart wrenching.
The bond between Grandfather and Granddaughter is clearly a special one, easily discernable within this short book.