I Love Salmon and Lampreys

A Native Story of Resilience

By: Brook M. Thompson, Anastasia Khmelevska (Illustrator)

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Hardcover | 4 March 2025

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32 Pages

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22.8 x 22.8 x 1.91

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Highlights the successful fight to remove the Klamath River dam, and how the author became inspired to advocate for salmon and lamprey as an adult.
Author Brook Thompson is Yurok and Karuk Native American from Northern California, and is a 2nd year PhD student at UC Santa Cruz in Environmental Studies, andworks part-time as a Restoration Engineer for the Yurok Tribe.
Thompson is the 2022 Native Journalism Award Winner, a UNITY 2020 25 Under 25 Recipient, a 2017 Undergraduate AIGC Student of the Year Awardee, and a Gates Millennium Scholar, among other honors.
Lovingly evokes the significance of salmon and lamprey in California Indian cultures in Northern California, where there is no Native-centered children's book about this topic yet.
Following on the success of previous Heyday children's picture book, Waa'aka', and other backlist children's books from like A Is for Acornand Coyote at the Big Time.
The font used for the text is accessible for people with dyslexia.
For readers who loved award-winningWe Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade.

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