Canada: We Are the Story

Author: Richard Wagamese
Publisher: Swift Water Books
Published: 03/17/2026
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 11.30w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781774886380
Audience: Ages 4-8


Review Citation(s):
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2026 pg. 75
School Library Journal 09/05/2025 pg. 1

About the Author
RICHARD WAGAMESE was a multi-award-winning Ojibway writer from Wabaseemoong First Nation in northwestern Ontario, Canada. His bestselling novels include Indian Horse, which was a Canada Reads finalist, winner of the inaugural Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature and made into a feature film; and Medicine Walk. He was also the author of acclaimed memoirs, including For Joshua; One Native Life and One Story, One Song, which won the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature; as well as a collection of personal reflections, Embers, which received the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award. He won the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Media and Communications, the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize, the Canada Reads People's Choice Award and the Writers' Trust of Canada's Matt Cohen Award. Richard died on March 10, 2017, in Kamloops, BC.

MANGESHIG PAWIS-STECKLEY is a multidisciplinary Anishinaabe artist and a member of Wasauksing First Nation. He is an award-winning children's book illustrator and author whose work explores themes of language revitalization, ancestral knowledge sharing and memory. Mangeshig's books have received a Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award, an Indigenous Voices Award and the Blue Spruce Award, and Miimaanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know (written by Brittany Luby) was shortlisted for a Governor General's Literary Award.