Song Within My Heart

Listen to the beating drum
It tells a hundred stories
Of our people, of our homeland
Some of birds and beasts and sweet grass.

Close your eyes and listen
You might come to hear a story
That no one hears but you alone
A story of your very own.

Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award

On Kirkus' Best Middle-Grade Books of 2015 list

On the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) annual best-of-the-year list