![]() ![]() ![]() François Thisdale’s illustrations enhance this poignant story of a young Aboriginal mother torn from her family in an unexplained way, like so many Aboriginal women in Canada have been. I’m not sure, though, who the audience is. ![]() Missing Nimâmâ is a truly beautiful book. “Once upon a time there was a little girl, a little butterfly, who flew to the telephone every time it rang, hoping against hope that her mother was coming home.” The intended age group for the picture book was listed in the competition literature as 9-12, which differs from my earlier assumptions in writing this review. On 17 November 2016, Missing Nimâmâ was awarded the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, the highest honour (and greatest monetary award) available for writers of children’s literature in Canada. This review was first published in Resource Links Magazine, “Canada’s national journal devoted to the review and evaluation of Canadian English and French resources for children and young adults.” It appears in volume 21.3. ![]()
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