From THE ARTS AT BGSU
Carole Lindstrom, author, and Michaela Goade, illustrator, of the Caldecott-Medal -winning children’s book “We Are Water Protectors” will speak twice in Bowling Green.
They will appear Friday, April 1 at 5:30 p.m. in Olscamp 101 on the BGSU campus as art of the “In the Round” speaker series, featuring indigenous creatives.
On Saturday, April 2, at 11 a.m. Registration is required, and seating is limited. To register, call (419) 352-8253, email woodkids@wcdpl.org, or visit wcdpl.org.
Lindstrom will appear in person and Goade will appear virtually from her home in Alaska. She lives in Sheet’ká (Sitka), Alaska, which she describes as “a magical island on the edge of a wide, wild sea.”
Books will be available for purchase and signing at both events.
Carole Lindstrom is Anishinabe/Metis and is tribally enrolled with the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe. She was born and raised in Nebraska and currently makes her home in Maryland. Carole has been a voracious reader and library geek ever since she was growing up in Nebraska. On weekends you could usually find her at the library lost in the book stacks or holed up in her bedroom with a good book. It wasn’t until she had her son, that she discovered her love of writing for children and began to work seriously on her writing. She is represented by the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
Her work, “Girls Dance, Boys Fiddle,” (Pemmican Publishers, 2013), was inspired by the fiddle and its importance to her Anishinabe/Metis culture. “We Are Water Protectors” (Roaring Brook Press, Spring 2020), a picture book inspired by Standing Rock, and all Indigenous Peoples fighting for clean water.
Michaela Goade is a Caldecott Medalist and #1 New York Times Bestselling illustrator of “We Are Water Protectors.” Other books include the New York Times Bestselling “I Sang You Down from the Stars,” and “Shanyaak’utlaax: Salmon Boy,” winner of the 2018 American Indian Youth Literature Award for Best Picture Book. Her next book, “Berry Song,” is her first self-written work and is set to publish June 14.
Goade’s work focuses on Indigenous children’s literature. She is honored to work with Indigenous authors and tribal organizations in the creation of powerful and much-needed books. An enrolled member of the Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Goade’s Tlingit name is Sheit.een and she is of the Kiks.ádi Clan (Raven/Frog) from Sheet’ká.
Goade was raised in the rainforest and on the beaches of Southeast Alaska, traditional Lingít Aaní (Tlingit land/world).
Free parking for the BGSU event is available in Parking Lot N near Jerome Library.
