Book of Play: With Northwest Coast Native Art Muscogee (Creek) poet Gwen Nell Westerman builds

poet Gwen Nell Westerman builds a world in words that reflects the past

working cooperatively

Like any good book about food

ordinary Mary

Though she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy

Book of Play: With Northwest Coast Native Art Muscogee (Creek) poet Gwen Nell Westerman buildsThis book offers young children a chance to explore counting, shapes, ABCs, and colors in a setting of Coast Salish, Haida, and Bella Bella art of the Northwest Coast. Nine artists shared their art and culture to create the board book's designs. The book includes a simple maze, a matching activity, and an environmental activity identifying animals and birds of the Northwest Coast.