poetic debut picture book from Pasha Westbrook about honoring one's roots and the unbreakable bond of familial love

Those hills were

The poems capture brief moments of beauty

live out their lives

But the rules have also changed in Jo Jo's classroom

Kohkom's First Drum horror poetic debut picture book fromWhen Charlie's Kohkom asks him what the best part of his school day was, he knows right away: Indigenous drum circle! Kohkom tells him that not very long ago she was gifted her very first drum at a ceremony for children who never returned home from residential schools. But Charlie doesn't understand. How could she only have gotten her first drum so recently? Kohkom explains that she was taken from her family when she was very little because of