![]() ![]() Recommended to anyone looking for picture-books that offer a gentle introduction to the idea of migrant work and workers. ![]() The artwork is beautiful, ably capturing Anna's flights of fancy, whether she is imagining herself and her sisters as kittens, or her family as migrating birds. I was unaware of this community of Mennonites, before picking up the book, and although I didn't learn much more about them specifically - something I have seen criticized - I felt that the story was successful in exploring, not just the emotional costs of this kind of work, but also the feeling of being set apart, when one belongs to a small religious minority. Migrant pairs an emotionally rich but understated narrative from author Maxine Trottier with lovely artwork from illustrator Isabelle Arsenault, poignantly depicting the emotional life of a child of migrant workers. Eventually, at the end of the season, her family migrates again. To understand just how many levels of peripatetic displacement that involves, you have to read this fascinating (mega-award-winning) book backwards. She sometimes feels shy and out of place amongst Canada's English-speaking people - her community speak Low German, or Plautdietsch - but she also enjoys hearing unfamiliar words and tones. Migrant by Maxine Trottier, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault Here’s an immigration story that took me by total surprise: German-speaking Mennonites from Mexico who work as migrant laborers in Canada. ![]() ![]() Show More them what it would feel like to be settled. ![]()
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