Shi-shi-etko / COPY 3

This is a beautiful story about a native American girl that is to leave home to attend a residential school. With an excellent art work, the story, which is written in free verse stanzas, focuses in how Shi-shi-etko will treasure her home before she leaves to attend to school. Through a slow pace

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narrative structure, the young reader will be immersed in this beautiful story that boards the value of cultural roots and home.

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Shi-shi-etko just has four days until she will have to leave her family and everything she knows to attend residential school. She spends her last precious days at home treasuring and appreciating the beauty of her world — the dancing sunlight, the tall grass, each shiny rock, the tadpoles in the

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creek, her grandfather's paddle song. Her mother, father, and grandmother, each in turn, share valuable teachings that they want her to remember. Shi-shi-etko carefully gathers her memories for safekeeping.

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What an amazing book. The illustrations and text work beautifully together to tell the story of a little girl who is getting ready to leave home for residential school. With the help of her family, she is gathering memories to hold her over until she returns in the spring.

I liked reading a first day of school book, regarding another cultures out look on it. I want my future classroom to be multicultured, so using this book would be a great help. I never read many picture books with different cultures involved so reading these makes me excited to read more and to use

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them!

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I think this book is a good story for children to read because it introduces children to different cultures and traditions of the Native American culture. I liked how the illustrations throughout the book illustrated the text.

I think a difficult story for young children to grasp.

A heart-breaking picture book, lyrically told and beautifully illustrated, Shi-shi-etko relates the story of a young girl's last four days at home, before her enforced separation from her family at one of Canada's residential schools for Native children. Rather than focusing on the residential

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school experience itself, Campbell (who is of Interior Salish & Metis ancestry) chooses to locate her narrative in the days leading up to the departure, emphasizing the family love and warmth that surround Shi-Shi-etko ("She loves to play in the water"), and the truly violent and traumatic nature of her separation from all that she knows.

Accompanied by LaFave's luminous, dream-like illustrations, Campbell's poignant narrative would make an excellent springboard for elementary teachers looking to explain this very disturbing aspect of the indigenous experience to young students. Although set in Canada, it has just as much relevance for students of U.S. history, where similar institutions flourished.

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Native American girl Shi-shi-etko must leave her family to attend a Canadian Residential boarding school. Picture book focuses on her love of family. Great illustrations.

Native American girl Shi-shi-etko must leave her family to attend a Canadian Residential boarding school. Picture book focuses on her love of family. Great illustrations.

This is a lyrical and touching story about a young child gathering her memories before being sent away to an Indian Residential School.

This beautiful picture book is about a young girl who must leave her family to go to school in a different country. It shows how important family is to her and even though she will be far away, her family is always in her heart.

Shi-shi-etko by Nicola I. Campbell is the story of a girl who in four days time must leave her family to attend residential school. We follow Shi-shi-etko as she soaks up all of the beauty and wonder of her home and her family so she can fill herself up until she is able to return home again.
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adult, reading this book is heart wrenching since we know where and what will potentially become of Shi-shi-etko. However, for our children, it provides a beautiful outlet to discuss family, favourite places and people, and why these things are so important to us. The lyrical text by Nicola I. Campbell and the rich and liquid illustrations by Kim LaFave are completely welcoming, drawing you into the story from page one. As with many books about the topic of residential schools, there is a perfect note from the author at the beginning to help lead a discussion with the younger generation about Residential School and the inherent problems with the system. I would share this picture book with preschool children and older.
This critically-acclaimed book is published by Groundwood Books. Shi-shi-etko is another fantastic book for every child.

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I read this for the "By An Indigenous Author" part of my 2020 reading challenge. A story about a young girl memorizing her surroundings and heritage before being sent off to school, moving and beautifully illustrated.