Publisher's Synopsis
Key Selling Points
- My Heart Fills With Happiness won the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize in 2017.
- Author Monique Gray Smith has also written the bestselling picture book You Hold Me Up and the middle-grade nonfiction book Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation .
- Illustrator Julie Flett received a BolognaRagazzi Special Mention (2019) for her illustrations in Richard Van Camp's We Sang You Home .
- This book features a beautiful array of Indigenous children and multigenerational families.
- The dual-language English/Plains Cree edition of this bookwas selected for the 2019 TD Grade One Book Giveaway.
- Monique Gray Smith dedicated this book to the former residential school students and their families.
- My Heart Fills With Happiness has been translated into French, Spanish, Plains Cree and Anishinaabemowin.
