![]() Writing in simple, lyrical text, author Tasha Spillett-Sumner draws from her cultural heritage in order to celebrate Indigenous traditions and the universal nature of a mother’s love, with stunning art by the 2021 Caldecott medal winner for We Are Water Protectors, Michela Goade. ![]() But when her family comes to meet the new arrival, she realizes the baby arrived with gifts of its own and that the baby is also a sacred bundle: a baby bundle. Tasha Spillett-Sumner and Michaela Goade, two Indigenous creators, bring beautiful words and luminous art together in a resonant celebration of the bond between. This is a beautiful story of a native woman preparing for her baby's birth and for welcoming her baby into this world. When the baby arrives, the mother shares the bundle with her child and reveals the importance of each item inside. A love letter from an Indigenous mother to her new baby. The narrator gathers gifts for a medicine bundle in anticipation of her baby’s birth a fluffy white eagle plume, bunches of cedar and sage, a quilted star blanket, and a small stone from the river. ![]() ![]() ![]() A New York Times and CBC Books bestselling #OwnVoices love letter from an Indigenous mother to her new baby, new from celebrated author Tasha Spillett-Sumner and 2021 Caldecott winning illustrator Michaela Goade, that honors the beauty of a little one's arrivalĭrawing from Indigenous creation stories and traditional teachings and illustrated in dazzling watercolors, I Sang You Down from the Stars is a tribute to the bond between mother and child. ![]()
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