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Many Ways of Being Native
  • Published: 4 November 2026
  • ISBN: 9781623546755
  • Imprint: Charlesbridge Children
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $38.00

Many Ways of Being Native

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6 Oct 2026
Hardback
4 Nov 2026
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A lyrical picture book reminding two children that no matter what they do, they are both Native—and who they are is enough.

Celebrate Native identity and diversity in this bedtime story for ages 4 to 7, inspiring children to feel proud of themselves and the many ways they shine.

A winged messenger visits two Native children in their sleep and shows them how other Native children have grown up, each with different interests, dreams, and appearances. 

The message: Native people are many. Native people are still here. And it’s what is inside, not outside, that unites Native people.

A moving celebration of identity, belonging, and the truth that who we are is always enough.
  • Published: 4 November 2026
  • ISBN: 9781623546755
  • Imprint: Charlesbridge Children
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $38.00
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About the authors

Ginger Reno

Ginger Reno is a children’s book author and an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Her debut novel, Find Her, was an Edgar Award nominee, an Oklahoma Book Award winner, and a Rise: A Feminist Book Project Top Ten Title. She is also the author of the picture books Spirit Shadow and Many Ways of Being Native. Ginger lives within the Cherokee Nation and spends as much time as possible on her lakefront porch with her two favorite people—her husband and their German shepherd.

Steph Littlebird is an Indigenous artist, writer, and curator and an enrolled member of Oregon’s Grand Ronde Confederated Tribes. She is the illustrator of My Powerful Hair by Carole Lindstrom, which received the Carter G. Woodson Book Award and was named an ALA-ALSC Notable Children’s Book, an NPR "Books We Love" selection, and a Kirkus Reviews Most Empowering Picture Book. She is also the author-illustrator of You Are the Land. Steph is currently writing a series about Indigenous resilience for Oregon ArtsWatch magazine. She lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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