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Wildful
Kengo Kurimoto
Illustrator: Kengo Kurimoto
Ages: 9+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
ISBN: 978-177-306862-6
Keywords: Family/School/Community-depression, grief, healing, mothers and daughters, grandparents, friendship, forest bathing, Canada, Japanese-Canadians, pets
A chance forest encounter gives Poppy a fresh appreciation of the wondrous web of existence, opening a path, for both her and her mother, away from grieving. Sepia ink and Photoshopped artwork.