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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Spillett-Sumner, Tasha, 1988-     Subjects     Indigenous peoples -- Juvenile fiction.     Infants -- Juvenile fiction.     Mother and infant -- Juvenile fiction.     Love, Maternal -- Juvenile fiction.     Medicine bundles -- Juvenile fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Spillett-Sumner, Tasha, 1988-       by title:      I sang you down from...       by call number:      FICTION SPI     Search the Web     Spillett-Sumner, Tasha, 1988-     Indigenous peoples -- Juvenile fiction.     Infants -- Juvenile fiction.     Mother and infant -- Juvenile fiction.     Love, Maternal -- Juvenile fiction.     Medicine bundles -- Juvenile fiction.       MARC Display

I sang you down from the stars / written by Tasha Spillett-Sumner ; illustrated by Michaela Goade. by Spillett-Sumner, Tasha, 1988- Owlkids Books, c2021. Call #: FICTION SPI Subjects Indigenous peoples -- Juvenile fiction.   Infants -- Juvenile fiction.   Mother and infant -- Juvenile fiction.   Love, Maternal -- Juvenile fiction.   Medicine bundles -- Juvenile fiction. ISBN:  9781771474085 1771474084 Description:  1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 27 cm. Summary:  Drawing on Indigenous creation stories as well as on traditional teachings tied to birth, I Sang You Down From the Stars is at once culturally specific and universal in its appeal. The story takes inspiration from Spillett's cultural heritage and the Inniniwak belief (also believed among other Indigenous peoples) that babies choose their parents before they are born. Following a child on its journey from sky to earth, this simple, welcoming story offers parent and child a moving reminder of just how loved, valued and important a baby is, both within an individual family and in the wider community, through the creation of a traditional medicine bundle, gifted to a baby upon their birth. It is a story of love, giving, and belonging. An Indigenous women describes the love she has for her child, even before the child has entered the world, through the gathering and making of culturally and personally significant items (sage and cedar as winter medicines, a quilted star blanket, a "fluffy white eagle plume" collected under a shooting star, and so on) into a medicine bundle, to welcome the baby when they arrive. As these items are collected together, the mother/narrator (and reader)'s anticipation grows. When the baby is born, the mother describes the significance of each item in the medicine bundle, and when family members also "gather" together to welcome and celebrate them, she sees that the baby has also arrived with gifts of their own to offer the family, like a sacred bundle-- "a sacred baby bundle." Genre:  Canadian fiction, Juvenile. School age picture book. Other authors:  Goade, Michaela. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Bedford Public Library School Age Picture Books - Indigenous Peoples Collection FICTION SPI Childrens Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library School Age Picture Books - Indigenous Peoples Collection FICTION SPI Childrens Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Cole Harbour Public Library School Age Picture Books - Indigenous Peoples Collection FICTION SPI Childrens Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Sheet Harbour Public Library School Age Picture Books - Indigenous Peoples Collection FICTION SPI Childrens Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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