Little Bear in Foster Care / Mkoons iiyaad Naagidwendgamaik Truth and Reconciliation and Andy Everson

and Andy Everson

Despite these hardships

the Governor General's award-winning novelist and poet

Totem Poles and Railroads is Janet’s fifth poetry collection developed during her term as UNBC’s 2015/2016 Writer in Residence and OCAD’s NIGIG Visiting Artist Residency in 2016

the author adds personal notes and illustrations

Little Bear in Foster Care / Mkoons iiyaad Naagidwendgamaik Truth and Reconciliation and Andy EversonAlgonquin author S. P. Joseph Lyons, from Kitigan Zibi First Nation, was placed in foster care as a young child and is a survivor of the Sixties Scoop. Foster Care can be scary and lonely. Through S. P. Joseph Lyons experiences, the Little Bear in Foster Care book makes foster care a little less frightening. Little Bear in Foster Care connects children to a range of emotions, encourages them to find their voice, and lets them know they are not alone