

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.
