Where Did You Get Your Moccasins? Grade Eight 1966) was an Ojibwe boy

1966) was an Ojibwe boy who ran away from Cecelia Jeffrey Residential School where he boarded for three years while attending public school in Kenora

and Anishinaabe girls and women during the mid-twentieth century

offering an understanding of their past

Audience: Ages 3-5

Co-published by Pearson Education Canada and GoodMinds

Where Did You Get Your Moccasins? Grade Eight 1966) was an Ojibwe boyWhere Did You Get Your Moccasins? is a wonderful picture book well suited for reading aloud to preschool and kindergarten children. The story focuses on a young boy who brings a pair of moccasins to school for show and tell. He explains step by step how his Kookum, his grandmother, made the moccasins. The sensitive black and white pencil drawings reflect the author's and illustrator's respect for the First Nation child in a multi cultural, urban