A heritage told through time
A history of family, connections, cunning trickster animals, and adventures untold: Old Grandmother’s Tree: A Collection of French-Canadian Folktales is a beautiful compilation of folktales set against the backdrop of 17th and early 20th century Quebec.
On her wedding night, a young Algonquin woman is visited by the spirit if her first husband and the trickster animals if Indigenous legends, who encourage her to set forth on a new journey. So begins the Meunier family’s origin story and the many adventures that cine through the generations that follow.
Combing richly woven stories and stunning artwork, Joseph Bolton’s and Natasha Pelley-Smith’s Old Grandmother’s Tree is a tribute to an untold story that will touch any reader.
