Author event: Monique Gray Smith
Focusing on Resilience in Indigenous Children’s Literature
Monday, April 18th,
2016 at 7:30 pm
Saanich Centennial
Branch, Greater Victoria Public Library
3110 Tillicum Road
(by Pearkes Arena)
Doors open at
7:00pm
Browse books for
sale from School House Teaching Supplies and Children's Bookstore
Monique’s
presentation will be a
sharing and storytelling time focusing on Indigenous children’s literature. She
will explore the importance of children having their
lived experience reflected on the pages, and why factors that foster resilience
are ideally woven into all books for Indigenous children. The role Indigenous
children’s literature plays in reconciliation will also be discussed.
Monique
Gray Smith is a mixed-heritage woman of Cree, Lakota and Scottish ancestry and
a proud mom of twins. Monique is an accomplished consultant, writer and
international speaker, blessed to live on Lekwungen territory in Victoria,
British Columbia. For more information, visit www.moniquegraysmith.com
