Author(s): Monique Gray Smith; Julie Flett (Illustrator); Lawrence Schimel (Translator)

Picture Books

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 illustrations in Richard Van Camp's 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 residential school students and their families.


• My Heart Fills With Happiness has been translated into French, Spanish, Plains Cree and Anishinaabemowin.