![]() ![]() įatty Legs was later followed by A Stranger at Home, as well as editions for younger readers entitled When I Was Eight and Not My Girl. Debbie Reese and a new preface by Christy Jordan-Fenton. Ī tenth anniversary edition was released in 2020 and included a new foreword by Dr. ![]() ![]() The book was published two years before the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission began to investigate the residential school system and was among the first children's books from a survivor of Canada's Indian Residential School System. The story introduces children to the devastating reality of the residential school system, a system focused on the assimilation of Indigenous peoples. Fatty Legs is a memoir aimed at middle-grade children, written by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton and illustrated by Liz Amini-Holmes, published Septemby Annick Press. ![]()
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