Little Shoes

Name: Little Shoes
Brand: Tundra Books

Tundra Books

Little ShoesAuthor(s): David Robertson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Penguin Random House Group, Canada\nImprint: Tundra\nISBN-13: 9781774881729, 978-1774881729\nSynopsis\nDeep in the night, when James should be sleeping, he tosses and turns. He thinks about big questions, like why we don't feel dizzy when the Earth spins. He looks at the stars outside his bedroom and thinks about the Night Sky Stories his kokom has told him. He imagines being a moshom himself. On nights like these, he follows the moonlit path to his mother's bedroom. They talk and they cuddle, and they fall asleep just like that. One day, James's kokom takes him on a special walk with a big group of people. It's called a march, and it ends in front of a big pile of things: teddy bears, flowers, tobacco ties and little shoes. Kokom tells him that this is a memorial in honour of Indigenous children who had gone to residential schools and boarding schools but didn't come home. He learns that his kokom was taken away to.