I Hope / Nipakosêyimon by Monica Gray Smith and Gabrielle Grimard - ADVISABLE

I Hope / nipakoseyimon by Monique Gray Smith, illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard. PICTURE BOOK Orca Book Publishers, 2022. $22. 9781459833258

BUYING ADVISORY: Pre-K, EL (K-3) - ADVISABLE 

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE 

A grandmother tells her grand daughter her many hopes for her. She hopes that her grand daughter knows joy, and is kind, among many other hopes. The grandmother wonders what are her grand daughters hopes? 

I Hope is a sweet story of an Indian grandmother's hopes for her grandchild. On each page, the English words have been translated into Plains Cree. The illustrations are sweet, beautiful, and tell much of the story. All nationalities and ethnicities are depicted in the illustrations. The hopes mentioned are hopes that all of us identify with. 

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