Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know

Explore the natural wonders of each season in this lyrical, bilingual story-poem. We accompany an Anishinaabe child and her grandmother through warm summer days full of wildflowers, bees and blueberries, then fall, when bears feast before hibernation and forest mushrooms are ripe for harvest. On winter mornings, deer, mice and other animals search for food, while spring brings green shoots poking through melting snow and the chirping of peepers. Brittany Luby and Joshua Mangeshig PawisSteckley have created a book inspired by childhood memories of time spent with Indigenous Knowledge Keepers, observing and living in relationship with the natural world in the place they call home the northern reaches of Anishinaabewaking, around the Great Lakes. (From Groundwood Books)

Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh /This Is How I Knowwason the shortlist for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award foryoung people's literature illustrated books.

Brittany Luby is an academic, an author of children's books and the great-granddaughter of Chief Kawitaskung, an Anishinaabe leader who signed the North-West Angle Treaty of 1873.

Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley is an Ojibway multidisciplinary artist from Ontario, whose family is from Wasauksing First Nation.

Brittany Luby is an academic andchildren's book author.She isthe great-granddaughter of Chief Kawitaskung, an Anishinaabe leader who signed the North-West Angle Treaty of 1873.

Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley is an Ojibway multidisciplinary artist from Ontario, whose family is from Wasauksing First Nation.

Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiereare Anishinaabe from M'Chigeeng First Nation. The father and son duo translated theAnishinaabemowin text for the book.

• The finalists for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for young people's literature illustrated books