Sometimes I Feel Like an Oak By Danielle Daniel (Grade 4-6)

DANIELLE DANIEL is a writer, an award-winning children's book author and illustrator. Like many Francophones with origins in
Quebec, she shares a family link to an Indigenous ancestor, an Algonquin woman who inspired her first adult novel,
Daughters of the Deer. Her debut middle grade novel, Forever Birchwood, flows out of her connection to the land where she
was born and raised, her environmental concerns and her interest in Indigenous ways of stewardship. Her picture books
include Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox (winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and a Best 100 title at the NYC Public
Library) and You Hold Me Up, shortlisted for the 2018 Marilyn Baillie award. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC.