A Northern Alphabet

 Ted Harrison

I love this artist!!!  We had a copy of the Cremation of Sam McGee at my parents house when I was little, and it was illustrated by Harrison.  It was one of my favourite books growing up.

 This book has a fair number of native or northern things for most of the letters.  But ukulele?  Some of them are just hokey.  But I get it.  For most of these letters, there's really nothing you can do.

I still really like this book because he took the tongue in cheek route instead of trying to be super serious about it.  And it's pretty fun to read the names of all of these northern towns and rivers and whatnot.

This is less of a baby book and more of a kindergarten or first grader's book.

Sharing Our World - Animals of the Native Northwest Coast - Board Book

 By Garfinkel Publications

I really liked the art and layout of this board book.  It was nice to look through with the kids.

However, it is really not appropriate for babies.  There is way too much text.

 Plus, on the first page it starts with an ancestor.  I can't even describe what an ancestor is to my 3 year old.  What in the world does the baby even think this is?

While looking up info on this book, I discovered that it was originally a 28 page picture book for older kids.  That makes so much more sense and would have been so much better.  I'll have to look into it for later.

Learn to Count with Northwest Coast Native Art

 With art by:

Ryan Cranmer
Corey Bulpitt
Eric Parnell
Francis Dick
Maynard Johnny Jr.
Terry Starr

My parents picked this up at the Vancouver Art Gallery.  It's basically the prettiest counting book we have.  I hope my kids enjoy native art when they're older.