When We Were Alone animals Gyo learned from her relatives

Gyo learned from her relatives the ways in which both women and Japanese people lacked opportunity

a pointy-stemmed rose

Author Jen Sookfong Lee shares her personal experience of growing up as the child of immigrants and gives a human face to the realities of being an immigrant or refugee today

Assorted non-toxic opaque colors in tray are neatly contained in a mess-free paint tray

and it was quite marvelous

When We Were Alone animals Gyo learned from her relativesWhen We Were Alone Written by David A Robertson and Julie Flett Governor General's literary Awards Winner! Canadian Children's Literature Award Finalist! Picture Book Distributed by University of Toronto Press Also available in a bilingual Swampy Cree English edition.