“I had this image of a young Kwantlen girl who was a little small and not as fast as the other kids…Kwantlen means ‘the tireless runners’.”

[windspeaker@mstdn.ca]

“I had this image of a young Kwantlen girl who was a little small and not as fast as the other kids…Kwantlen means ‘the tireless runners’.”

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The music of Frog inspires a tale of healing and giving back

With spring upon us and the song of the frog filling the air, Joseph Dandurand admits it was that sound that inspired his newest children’s book Pipa:m̓: The Touch of the Frog as part of the Kwantlen Stories Then and Now series.Dandurand, a member of the Kwantlen First Nation in British Columbia, says he was also influenced by his childhood memories of the Brothers Grimm’s The Frog Prince. 

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