Excerpt from the Indigenous Family Literacy Circle July 2026 Newsletter – Subscribe Now!
All about Berries!
Summer Brings Berries Infant and Toddler
Introduce babies and toddlers to the abundance of wild coastal food in this board book featuring vibrant new art by Roy Henry Vickers.
From salmonberries and spruce tips to crabs, mussels and spotted prawns, the West Coast is home to wild delicacies. In this sturdy and tactile board book, Roy Henry Vickers and Lucky Budd use rhyming text and colourful imagery to explore and celebrate traditional foods of the West Coast.
Summer Brings Berries is part of the First West Coast Book Series, which helps babies and toddlers learn foundational knowledge (including their ABCs, colours and numbers), and it will have children building vocabulary around taste, food and the wild world around them. (excerpt from Goodminds.com)
Raspberry Relations: Let’s Reconcile Amidst the Bushes The teachings of the raspberry, nurturing, patience, and care, are a core inspiration for this piece, as the raspberry represents a blend of personal memories with themes of relationships, community, and our deep connection to the land. “[…] memories of that house began to fade, but the lessons from those raspberry bushes remained vivid. They remind me of the cherished moments my dad and I spent tending to the land together.”
