Aux yeux de Jessie et Johnny, leur amitié est simple.
Jessie et Johnny sont inséparables depuis que Jessie est déménagée dans leur petite ville insulaire, au cours des vacances d’été. Mais alors qu’ils débutent ensemble leur quatrième année, l’année scolaire s’annonce mouvementée, quand des pressions de l’extérieur et des différences dans leur vie familiale viennent menacer leur amitié. Jessie mène une vie confortable et n’a jamais à s’inquiéter d’argent, tandis que Johnny vit avec son père et sa belle-mère dans la réserve en dehors de la ville. Grâce aux conseils de Corbeau et de leur professeur spirituel, Steven, les deux amis comblent les lacunes entre eux et apprennent à compter l’un sur l’autre, malgré leurs soucis familiaux et leurs différences culturelles.
Également disponible sous le titre Two Tricksters Find Friendship en anglais. Cet ouvrage en format ePub est entièrement accessible.
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To Jessie and Johnny, their friendship is easy.
Jessie and Johnny have been inseparable ever since Jessie moved to the small island town during summer break. But as they begin fourth grade together, the new school year gets off to a rocky start when outside pressures and differences in their home lives threaten their friendship. Jessie lives comfortably and never worries about money while Johnny lives with his father and stepmother on the reserve outside of town. With guidance from Raven and spiritual teacher, Steven, the two friends bridge the gaps between them and learn to lean on each other through family troubles and cultural differences.
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Elder Johnny Aitken is an interdisciplinary artist, actor, writer, carver, filmmaker, activist and educator. Johnny’s mixed ancestry includes Coast Salish, Scottish and Haida and he self-identifies as a 2Spirit First Nations individual. Johnny’s twenty-foot-tall carving of an Honouring Figure stands in the Emma and Felix Jack Park on Mayne Island―a park named after his grandparents from the Cowichan Tribes. As a self-proclaimed “cross-cultural bridge builder,” Johnny enjoys collaborating with members of both Indigenous and Settler communities and has dedicated himself to a lifetime career in creating stories that lead to a place of healing. He lives on Mayne Island, British Columbia.
Jess Willows has had a long career as a teacher in the Gulf Islands School District, and she has been involved with professional development (PD) for teachers, offering workshops and serving as the district chair for many years. Jess completed a PhD in Educational Leadership and is currently teaching in her local community school. She has lived her whole life on the west coast, is of settler ancestry and is currently living on the unceded territories of the SENĆOŦEN and Hul'q'umi'num-speaking peoples.
Alyssa Koski is an illustrator, animator and entrepreneur. She graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design (now Alberta University of the Arts) with a major in Character Design. Alyssa specializes in whimsical and narrative-based illustration, following the themes of adventure, magic and belief in the impossible. She mostly works on children’s books, graphic novels and short film 2D animation. She is also the curator of her grandma’s traditional Blackfoot dress collection, which she showcases in museums, pop-up exhibits and fashion shows. She has a mixed heritage of Blackfoot and European ancestry and is a member of the Kainai Nation. She lives in her hometown of Okotoks with her family and many dogs.
After studying in medicine, art history and translation, Michèle Marineau has been a writer and a translator for more than 35 years. As a writer, she won a Governor General Literary Award in the Young People’s Literature category twice (for Cassiopée ou l’été polonais in 1988, and La route de Chlifa in 1993) as well as other awards in Québec, France and Belgium. As a translator, she was thrice a finalist for a GG Award, and her translation of Barrie Baker’s The Village of a Hundred Smiles and other stories, Le Village aux Infinis Sourires et autres histoires, was on the IBBY Honour List in 2002. Michèle lives between Montréal and L’Isle-aux-Grues, in Québec, with her husband, writer François Gravel, and their two cats.
