Compare My Heart Fills With Happiness / sâkaskinêw nitêh miywêyihtamowin ohci

Key Selling Points My Heart Fills With Happiness won the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize in 2017.  Author Monique Gray Smith has also written the bestselling picture books You Hold Me Up, When We Are Kind and the middle-grade nonfiction book Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation. Illustrator Julie Flett received a BolognaRagazzi Special Mention (2019) for her book with Richard Van Camp, We Sang You Home. This book features a beautiful array of Indigenous children and multigenerational families.  The dual language English/Plains Cree edition was selected for the 2019 TD Grade One Book Giveaway. Monique Gray Smith dedicated this book to the former Indian Residential School students and their families. My Heart Fills With Happiness has been translated into French, Spanish, Plains Cree and Anishinaabemowin.