My Heart Fills With Happiness / Nijiikendam

Key Selling Points

• My Heart Fills With Happiness won the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize in 2017.
• Author Monique Gray Smith has also written the bestselling picture book You Hold Me Up and the middle-grade nonfiction book Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation .
• Illustrator Julie Flett received a BolognaRagazzi Special Mention (2019) for her book with Richard Van Camp, We Sang You Home .
• This book features a beautiful array of Indigenous children and multigenerational families.
• The dual-language English/Plains Cree edition of this bookwas selected for the 2019 TD Grade One Book Giveaway.
• Monique Gray Smith dedicated this book to the former Indian Residential School students and their families.
• My Heart Fills With Happiness has been translated into French, Spanish, Plains Cree and now Anishinaabemowin.