I Hope

Key Selling Points

Simple, straightforward text outlines essential hopes that adults have for the young ones they love and asks young readers what hopes they have for themselves. Monique Gray Smith is an award-winning, bestselling author and advocate for the mental health and well-being of all children. Carefully constructed text addresses aspirations from a safe place to sleep to a life full of love. The author’s When We Are Kind was a Quill & Quire Best Book of the Year, and My Heart Fills With Happiness won the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize. The illustrator has been nominated for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award. Also available in French and Cree–English editions.