Circle of Love by Monique Gray Smith, illustrated by Nicole Neidhardt

In this warmhearted book, we join Molly at the Intertribal Community Center, where she introduces us to people she knows and loves: her grandmother and her grandmother's wife, her uncles and their baby, her cousins, and her treasured friends.

They dance, sing, garden, learn, pray, and eat together. And tonight, they come together for a feast! Molly shares with the reader how each person makes her feeland reminds us that love is love.

Through tender prose and radiant artwork, author Monique Gray Smith (Cree/Lakota) and illustrator Nicole Neidhardt (Din) show how there is always room for others in our lives.Circle of Loveis a story celebrating family, friends, community, and, most of all, love.

(From HarperCollins)

MoniqueGray Smith's many other books include the novelsTilly: A Story of Hope and ResilienceandTilly and the Crazy Eights,the picture booksWhen We Are KindandMy Heart Fills with Happiness.

Neidhardt is Din (Navajo) of Kiiyaa'anii clan and works in a variety of media, including book illustration, mylar stenciling, installation and mural painting and design.

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