If you kiss a kohkom

key selling points:

• a warm intergenerational story about a granddaughter spending a joyful day with her kohkom, learning how to bead earrings, sew a ribbon skirt and make bannock.
• highlights the vital role of elders in sharing knowledge, culture and traditions with younger generations.
• incorporates cree words throughout, with a picture glossary at the back to support language learning and classroom use.
• the narration mimics the style of if you give a mouse a cookie, making for a fun read-aloud experience, and the beautiful illustrations make it ideal for family reading, school libraries and cultural education.
• author and indigenous anthropologist tonya simpson is scottish and cree and a member of the pasqua first nation. this is her fourth book, following forever our home, this land is a lullaby and if you make a mosom tea.