-Fiction: Picture Book Traditional, Heritage
-Goade, Michaela. Berry Song. Illus by Michaela Goade. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2022, Unp, Primary

-Berry Song is an enlightening story of a grandma and niece on a journey through nature on a beautiful day depicted by vibrant and gleaming watercolor illustrations. From the point of view of the child, Berry Song teaches the reader the importance of learning from Elders and respectfully living from nature that provides itself to us living creatures in a repetitive, calming tone that pleases the reader.

-AK: Nature, Salmonberry, Cloudberry, Blueberry, Nagoonberry, Huckleberry, Snowberry, Strawberry, Crowberry, herring eggs, Elder

-Activity: Before reading the book ask students about prior knowledge or experiences picking berries, harvesting herring eggs, or other traditional activities to help students connect with the text. Afterwards ask students questions about why it’s important to learn from Elders and respectfully harvest from the land. ( )

This Caldecott Honor book is set "on an island at the edge of a wide, wild sea" and celebrates a Tlinget grandmother teaching her granddaughter "how to live on the land." As the land sings to them and sustains them, grandmother and granddaughter sing their gratitude to the land and forest and ocean. This is a beautiful story of familial love and the passing on of Indigenous knowledge.

PreS-Gr 2—A botanical guide to bright berries, an intergenerational journey in a wintry setting, an invitation to
explore Tlingit values, or simply a beautiful picture book—there are so many reasons to sing this berry song while
uncovering the lyrical elements of the natural landscape.

This book teaches about a little bit of a different way of learning then students may be used to. This books talks about how the little girl and her grandmother live off the land and they sing a song of thanks to the land for providing the berrys to them. ( )

Childrens books
Picture book

Berry song
Realistic picture story book Grand mother and granddaughter love of wilderness

Goade Michaela Berry Song Illus Michaela Goade, Little Brown Books for Young Readers (July 19, 2022) 40pg. Primary

In this children’s picture book. The setting of this book is on an island in Alaska out picking berries and gathering other goods. As you hear The granddaughter narrate her adventures with grandma out picking berry’s she tells of all the joys it brings to her heart how much love she has for the land you can you see through her eyes the love and joy the land brings. She writes with a loving caring tone. The illustration are abstract and tie in a lot of elements that you may encounter in the wild. This book is a nice read and it really reminds me of my mom and grandparents taking us all out berry picking.

Plot Picking berries.
Characters Grandmother and Grand daughter
Setting A island in southeast Alaska
Theme Alaska native children’s picture book
Style Narrative
Tone is loving careing
Point of view
Illustrations look to be abstract
What you think of the book ( )