Key Selling Points

• My Heart Fills With Happiness won the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize in 2017.
• Author Monique Gray Smith has also written the bestselling picture books You Hold Me Up, When We Are Kind and the middle-grade nonfiction book Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation.
• Illustrator Julie Flett received a BolognaRagazzi Special Mention (2019) for her book with Richard Van Camp, We Sang You Home.
• This book features a beautiful array of Indigenous children and multigenerational families.
• This dual-language English/Plains Cree edition was selected for the 2019 TD Grade One Book Giveaway.
• Monique Gray Smith dedicated this book to the former Indian Residential School students and their families.
• My Heart Fills With Happiness has been translated into French, Spanish, Plains Cree and Anishinaabemowin.
• Part of Orca’s accessible audiobook collection, featuring alternate text descriptions of any images, including the cover.