You Hold Me Up

Encourage children to show love and support for each other and to consider each other's well-being in their everyday actions.

Consultant, international speaker and award-winning author Monique Gray Smith wrote You Hold Me Up to prompt a dialogue among young people, their care providers and educators about reconciliation and the importance of the connections children make with others. With vibrant illustrations from celebrated artist Danielle Daniel, this is a foundational book about building relationships, fostering empathy and encouraging respect between peers, starting with our littlest citizens.

Author: Monique Gray Smith
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 10/31/2017
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 9.06h x 9.29w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781459814479
Audience: Ages 4-8


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2017
School Library Journal 11/01/2017
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2018 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw

About the Author
Gray Smith, Monique: -

Monique Gray Smith is a mixed-heritage woman of Cree, Lakota and Scottish ancestry and a proud mom of twins. Monique is an accomplished consultant, writer and international speaker. Her first novel, Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, won the 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature. Monique's picture book My Heart Fills With Happiness won the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize and was selected as the TD Grade One Giveaway Book for all grade one students in Canada in 2019. Monique and her family are blessed to live on Lekwungen territory in Victoria, British Columbia.

Daniel, Danielle: -

Danielle Daniel is the author and illustrator of Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox, winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, a finalist for the First Nation Communities Read Award and the Blue Spruce Award and a New York Public Library's Most Notable Books of 2015. Danielle earned her MFA from the University of British Columbia. She writes and paints in Little Current, Ontario.