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We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
  • Published: 7 December 2021
  • ISBN: 9781623542993
  • Imprint: Charlesbridge Children
  • Format: Board Book
  • Pages: 28
  • RRP: $24.99

We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga

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EBook
23 Oct 2018
Hardback
15 Sept 2018
Board Book
7 Dec 2021
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The Cherokee community is grateful for the blessings and challenges that each season brings. This is modern Native American life as told by best-selling Cherokee author Traci Sorell.

A perfect autumn story for babies and toddlers, this new board book for 0-3-year-olds is based on the award-winning picture book and celebrates gratitude.

The Cherokee community is grateful for the blessings and challenges that each season brings. This is modern Native American life as told by best-selling Cherokee author Traci Sorell.

Now a board book for 0-3-year-olds interested in contemporary Indigenous stories that are both accessible and universal for the littlest readers. Based on the award-winning picture book.
 
The word otsaliheliga (oh-jah-LEE-hay-lee-gah) is used by members of the Cherokee Nation to express gratitude. Beginning in the fall with the new year and ending in summer, follow a full Cherokee year of celebrations and experiences.

Written by best-selling and award-winning Cherokee author Traci Sorell, this board book edition includes the complete Cherokee syllabary, originally created by Sequoyah.
  • Published: 7 December 2021
  • ISBN: 9781623542993
  • Imprint: Charlesbridge Children
  • Format: Board Book
  • Pages: 28
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Traci Sorell

Best-selling author Traci Sorell writes inclusive, award-winning historical and contemporary fiction and nonfiction in a variety of formats for young people. She is a two-time Sibert Medal and Orbis Pictus honoree and an award-winning audiobook narrator and producer. Eight of her books have received awards from the American Indian Library Association, including At the Mountain’s Base, Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series and She Persisted: Wilma Mankiller. A former federal Indigenous law attorney and policy advocate, Traci is a Cherokee Nation citizen and first-generation college graduate. She lives within her tribe’s reservation in northeastern Oklahoma.
portrait photo of Traci Sorell

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Estamos agradecidos: Otsaliheliga (Spanish Edition)
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Praise for We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga

Praise for We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
2020 American Indian Youth Literature Award--Picture Book Honor
2019 Sibert Medal Honor Award
2019 Orbis Pictus Honor Award
2019 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2018
School Library Journal Best Books of 2018
2019 Reading the West Picture Book Award
"A gracious, warm, and loving celebration of community and gratitude"--Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"The book underscores the importance of traditions and carrying on a Cherokee way of life"--Horn Book, starred review
"An elegant representation"--Shelf Awareness, starred review