Swift Fox All Along

Name: Swift Fox All Along
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Rebecca Thomas
ISBN: 9781773214528

Author: Rebecca Thomas

Narrator: Lisa Nasson

Unabridged: 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 03/15/2021

Categories: Children's Fiction, Indigenous Stories

Synopsis

What does it mean to be Mi’kmaq? And if Swift Fox can’t find the answer, will she ever feel like part of her family? When Swift Fox’s father picks her up to go visit her aunties, uncles, and cousins, her belly is already full of butterflies. And when he tells her that today is the day that she’ll learn how to be Mi’kmaq, the butterflies grow even bigger. Though her father reassures her that Mi’kmaq is who she is from her eyes to her toes, Swift Fox doesn’t understand what that means. Her family welcomes her with smiles and hugs, but when it’s time to smudge and everyone else knows how, Swift Fox feels even more like she doesn’t belong. Then she meets her cousin Sully and realizes that she’s not the only one who’s unsure—and she may even be the one to teach him something about what being Mi’kmaq means. Based on the author’s own experience, with striking illustrations by Maya McKibbin, Swift Fox All Along is a poignant story about identity and belonging that is at once personal and universally resonant.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mia | The Bookish Feminist on July 02, 2020

Swift Fox All Along is exactly the kind of story that children and their families need to read, no matter what community you come from. This is a story about complex identities, struggling to feel accepted or a sense of belonging, the effect of boarding schools and being separated from one’s culture......more

Goodreads review by Sandy on November 25, 2020

This very specific story is anchored in a personal experience, as clarified in the author note at the back. nevertheless, it offers readers of every background a wealth of personal connections related to identity, acceptance, worries, and confusions. The specific details of Swift Fox's struggle invo......more

Goodreads review by FM on June 25, 2021

My 4 year old LOVED this one. We never really got an answer about what she liked about it, but she requested it over and over and even just loved looking at the cover and how it spread to the back of the book. A fairly simple story with lots of complex layers about family, identity and belonging. Sw......more

Goodreads review by Storytime With Stephanie on August 06, 2020

One of the results of colonization is loss of culture. In Swift Fox All Along by Rebecca Lea Thomas and Maya McKibbon, Swift Fox experiences her first taste of being Mi’kmaq. Her father takes her to visit aunties and uncles and tells her she is Mi’kmaq through and through but she doesn’t feel it. Fi......more