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Christy jordan fenton books6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Varying perspectives and angles, she brings readers into this unfamiliar world. Her paintings stretch across the gutter and sometimes fill the spreads. Grimard portrays this black-cloaked nun with a scowl and a hooked nose, the image of a witch. In her first-person narration, she compares the nun to the Queen in Alice in Wonderland, a story she has heard from her sister and longs to read for herself, subtly reminding readers of the power of literature to help face real life. “Brave, clever, and as unyielding” as the sharpening stone for which she’s named, Olemaun convinces her father to send her from their far-north village to the “outsiders’ school.” There, the 8-year-old receives particularly vicious treatment from one of the nuns, who cuts her hair, assigns her endless chores, locks her in a dark basement and gives her ugly red socks that make her the object of other children’s taunts. The authors of Fatty Legs (2010) distill that moving memoir of an Inuit child’s residential school experience into an even more powerful picture book. ![]()
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