Join the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences and the Child Care and Learning Centre as we continue to celebrate Indigenous authors. The event will feature a reading of Brittany Luby's book When the Stars Come Home [1]. Narrated by University of Guelph's librarian Nancy Birch, who will read this heartwarming book, exploring how the comfort of tradition and storytelling fosters a genuine sense of belonging. 

BRITTANY LUBY was raised on Treaty #3 lands in what is now known as northwestern Ontario. She has been trained by Elders at her ancestral community, Niisaachewan Anishinaabe Nation, to respond to environmental needs and to raise awareness of Crown-Anishinaabe relations in what is colonially known as Canada. She works as an author and a professor to help fulfill those responsibilities.

Luby has won numerous awards for both her fiction and non-fiction writing, including the Blueberry Picture Book Award (2023), the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children's Picture Book Award (2022), Best Book in Canadian Environmental History (2022), and the Governor-General’s History Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research (2021). 

Her picture books include the When the Stars Came Home, Mnoomin Maan'gowing/The Gift of Mnoomin, Mii mandaa ezhi-gkendmaanh/This Is How I Know, and Encounter. Luby’s non-fiction books for adult readers include Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory as well as the co-edited anthology Manomin: Caring for Ecosystems and Each Other (forthcoming Fall 2024).

We will have a few books to purchase at the event for $27 (cash only). If you'd like to purchase When the Stars Came Home or any of the other books in Brittany’s collection visit Goodminds.ca [2]

No registration required  |  This event is open to all members of the University of Guelph community.