{"id":110430,"date":"2022-08-10T16:33:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T20:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=110430"},"modified":"2022-08-10T16:55:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T20:55:33","slug":"blue-quills-university-publishes-five-robert-munsch-books-translated-into-indigenous-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/blue-quills-university-publishes-five-robert-munsch-books-translated-into-indigenous-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Quills University publishes five Robert Munsch books in Indigenous languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May, Blue Quills University announced that they published five well known children\u2019s books by Robert Munsch into n\u00eahiyaw\u00eawin and the denes\u0173\u0142\u0131n\u00e9 languages.<\/p>\n<p>This two year project was funded by Alberta Education through the Indigenous Languages Education Grant, worth $50,000 for both years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_110438\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110438\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-110438\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tina-Willman-Image-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"Image shows Tina Willman, language resource developer at Blue Quills University (Photo Submitted)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tina-Willman-Image-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tina-Willman-Image-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tina-Willman-Image-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tina-Willman-Image.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-110438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tina Willman, language resource developer at Blue Quills University. Photo submitted.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tina Wellman, language resource developer at Blue Quills University, says that Robert Munsch was an advocate for Indigenous languages. Over the two year project, the university reached out and collaborated with the publishing company Scholastic Canada, and Wellman said \u201cthey were great to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two of the books that were translated into Indigenous languages include <em>Love You Forever, <\/em>and<em> Ready, Set, Go.<\/em> All five books have the same illustrations as their English and French versions, Wellman said.<\/p>\n<p>The five books also include audio book versions in the denes\u0173\u0142\u0131n\u00e9 and the n\u00eahiyaw\u00eawin languages. Wellman shared more about the voice actors that were involved in creating the audio.<\/p>\n<p>Wellman says that these books are well known to both parents and children which created a buzz of excitement now that the five Robert Munsch titles were translated.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_110440\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110440\" class=\"wp-image-110440 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Robert-Munsch-Books-Image-02-rotated-e1660163283872.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white text page in a children's book that is written in Dene.\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Robert-Munsch-Books-Image-02-rotated-e1660163283872.jpg 240w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Robert-Munsch-Books-Image-02-rotated-e1660163283872-161x215.jpg 161w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-110440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A page from Love You Forever translated in Dene. Photo submitted.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>A reading of a page of <em>Love You Forever<\/em> in Dene, voiced by Linda Minoose:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-110430-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/audio-snippet-love-you-forever-robert-munch-dene-by-linda-minoose-EDITED.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/audio-snippet-love-you-forever-robert-munch-dene-by-linda-minoose-EDITED.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/audio-snippet-love-you-forever-robert-munch-dene-by-linda-minoose-EDITED.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div id=\"attachment_110444\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110444\" class=\"wp-image-110444 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Robert-Munsch-books-Image-03-rotated-e1660163462120.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white text page of a children's book in Cree.\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Robert-Munsch-books-Image-03-rotated-e1660163462120.jpg 240w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Robert-Munsch-books-Image-03-rotated-e1660163462120-161x215.jpg 161w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-110444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Love You Forever page translated in Cree. Photo submitted.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>A reading of a page from Love You Forever in Cree, voiced by Wayne Jackson:<\/strong><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-110430-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/audio-snippet-love-you-forever-robert-munch-cree-by-wayne-jackson-EDITED.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/audio-snippet-love-you-forever-robert-munch-cree-by-wayne-jackson-EDITED.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/audio-snippet-love-you-forever-robert-munch-cree-by-wayne-jackson-EDITED.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>For more information on the five books, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/bluequills.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bluequills.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the audio below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May, Blue Quills University announced that they published five well known children\u2019s books by Robert Munsch into n\u00eahiyaw\u00eawin and the denes\u0173\u0142\u0131n\u00e9 languages. This two year project was funded by Alberta Education through the Indigenous Languages Education Grant, worth $50,000 for both years. Tina Wellman, language resource developer at Blue Quills University, says that Robert&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":110434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219,221,16830],"tags":[14338,980,17652,3221],"radio":[9847],"origine":[268,267,228],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110430"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110461,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110430\/revisions\/110461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110430"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=110430"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=110430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}