We Are Water Protectors: (Caldecott Medal Winner) Hardcover – Picture Book, March 17, 2020

This book is such a gem! Telling the truth about racism gives tiny people the truth of the made up system of “race” and to helping them to be rooted in truth as they work to dismantle the system of so called “white supremacy”

This is such an awesome book! The story and illustrations are beautiful and important.

I am part Ojibwe, learning more about my heritage and was ga-ga over these illustrations, especially the designs similar to Ojibwe beadwork embroidery. My favorite page is the one showing we were in water for the first nine months of our lives with its touching and gorgeous illustration. Very powerful for young ones to have the water protector pledge to sign at the end of the book.

Wonderfully written, beautiful colors and pages. Great quality book with a great story behind it to teach the youth.

An instant hit and classic with me and the half dozen kids I’ve already gifted it to! My 3 and 7 year old nieces from difference families are in love with this book and asking all the right questions. I am thrilled that they love it as much as I do because understanding the critical relationship we have with water and the need for stewardship is incredibly important, whether you know about Standing Rock or not - and whether you are indigenous or not, though it is all the more sweet that it was written by and indigenous person.I spent over four months at Standing Rock. This book amazingly captures the inspiration I felt there. I cannot recommend it highly enough. I hope you will consider buying an extra copy and gifting it to your local elementary school. It’s a book I hope will become widely available to all.

WE ARE WATER PROTECTORS, written by Carole Lindstrom and illustrated by Michaela Goade is a lyrical story of caution, celebration, and endurance. The words are a tribute and honor to the thing most important to life – water. Illustrations flow, undulate, and embrace plant and animal life and remind us how we are all one on this Mother Earth.The author and illustrator are members of indigenous tribes who know what it means to be one with the land and all its living creatures. They show how taking action and standing up for environmental justice is important and necessary. We need books like this now more than ever.

I love this story. I bought this book for my class. The message and illustrations are beautiful. My students enjoyed it.

The artwork is beautiful and the story telling is compelling. I liked the last pages that shared the culture and history as much as the story telling.