Storybooks & Novels

Medicine Wheel Publications - A company that focusses on Indigenous Storytellers and Elders publishing authentic cultural stories designed for the classroom.

• A Coyote Solstice Tale by Thomas King; Gary Clement (Illustrator)

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  Winner of the American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Awards, Best Picture Book.

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• Shin-Chi's Canoe by Nicola I. Campbell; Kim Lafave (Illustrator)

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  Winner of the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and finalist for the Governor General's Award: Children's Illustration.

      

The Little Hummingbird by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas; Wangari Maathai 

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  The Old Man with the Otter Medicine by John Blondin; George Blondin (As told by); Archie Beaverho (Illustrator); Mary Rose Sundberg (Translator) tells of medicine power, the struggle for survival and an important part of the history and culture of the Dene people

• Proud to Be Inuvialuit by Mindy Willett; James Pokiak

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• Shannen and the Dream for a School by Janet Wilson

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  This book tells true story of an Aboriginal girl's fight for "safe and comfy" schools for all children, a fight that has inspired young people across Canada.

• Motorcycles and Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor

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    Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle and turns Otter Lake completely upside down.
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• Will's Garden by Lee Maracle

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  Will's Garden explores and describes the ceremonial traditions of Sto: loh boys who are becoming men.