Wild Berries by Julie Flett

 

Bookseller blurb: Spend the day picking wild blueberries with Clarence and his grandmother. Meet ant, spider, and fox in a beautiful woodland landscape, the ancestral home of author and illustrator Julie Flett. This book is written in both English and Cree, in particular the n-dialect, also known as Swampy Cree from the Cumberland House area. 

Wild Berries was published in 2013 but I see a new edition will be released this year [9781772291049]. With a group of older students in Australia you could introduce the topic of other indigenous peoples such as the Cree of Canada. This book would also be brilliant to use with in an art class in High School. 

Read this interview with Julie Flett about her work and you can see inside Wild Berries. 

Except for a passing fox and the occasional bird, animals are depicted as silhouettes, which adds to the episode’s overall visual simplicity. ... A sweet commemoration of a shared experience, presented with care and infused with intimacy. Kirkus Star review

Here are some other books to explore by Canadian illustrator Julie Flett - you should consider adding at least one of her books to your library collection. I mentioned Julie Flett in this previous post.