Orca Book Publishers
My Heart Fills with Happiness
DEDICATED TO former residential school students and their families, indigenous author Monique Gray Smith and illustrator Julie Flett’s book is a celebration of aboriginal culture – with entries such as “I smell bannock baking in the oven” – but also universal in its message: sometimes it’s the simplest things that lift our spirits highest (“I feel the sun dancing on my cheeks” or “I hold the hand of someone I love”).