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Miya Wears Orange

Wanda John-Kehewin | Erika Rodriguez Medina
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indigenous life
mothers and daughters
picture book for kids
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truth and reconciliation
understanding emotions

Product details

  • ISBN 9781774921258
  • Weight: 272g
  • Dimensions: 215 x 215mm
  • Publication Date: 18 Sep 2025
  • Publisher: Portage & Main Press
  • Publication City/Country: CA
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

This beautifully illustrated book, based on the lived experience of the author, that gently explores the complicated feelings a young girl experiences as she learns about tragedy and injustice.

Miya loves her school and she especially loves storytime. One day, her teacher shares a story about a little girl who was taken away to a residential school. The little girl wasn’t allowed to go home. Her hair was cut and she wasn’t allowed to keep her favourite doll. She was taken away from her family because she was Indigenous, just like Miya!

Miya worries the same thing will happen to her. Her mom tells her that Indigenous girls and boys aren’t forced to leave their families anymore. Miya is relieved, but she is still sad. What can she do about these feelings?
About Wanda John-Kehewin | Erika Rodriguez Medina
Wanda John-Kehewin (she/her/hers) is a Cree writer who uses her work to understand and respond to the near destruction of First Nations cultures, languages, and traditions. When she first arrived in Vancouver on a Greyhound bus, she was a pregnant nineteen-year-old carrying little more than a bag of chips, a bottle of pop, thirty dollars, and hope. After many years travelling (well, mostly stumbling) along her healing journey, she now writes to stand in her truth and to share that truth openly. A published poet and fiction author, her first novel for young adults, Hopeless in Hope, won the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize and was named to USBBY’s Outstanding International Books list. Erika Rodriguez Medina (she/her) is a Mexican book publicist and illustrator, currently living and working in Vancouver, BC. Her favorite things to illustrate are angry kids, energetic characters, nature and space. There is a special place in her heart for folklore, spooky stories, big house plants, and things you’d find at a grandma’s house.

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