Mnoomin Maan'gowing / The Gift of Mnoomin by Brittany Luby downtown and The New York Times

and The New York Times Award for best illustration

Ashley Wolff lives in Vermont and is the author and illustrator of more than sixty books for children

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Mnoomin Maan'gowing / The Gift of Mnoomin by Brittany Luby downtown and The New York TimesIn this bilingual book, an Anishinaabe child explores the story of a precious mnoomin seed and the circle of life mnoomin sustains. Written in Anishinaabemowin and English, the story opens at harvest time. A child holds a mnoomin seed and imagines all the life that made a single seed possible Mayfly, Pike, Muskrat, Eagle and Moose, all had a part to play in bringing the seed into being. What will happen if the seed sprouts? Underwater leaves will