![]() ![]() She said, 'You can go to school and learn how to read yourself.' My father finally decided that when I turned eight he would send me off to school. I did not understand anything, but I was so fascinated. When she was 13, she came home to us and she would read to me. ![]() So she was raised by an aunt who then put her in a residential school. Margaret Pokiak-Fenton: "I have an older half-sister and her mother died when she was little. ![]() Along with book co-creator and daughter-in-law Christy Jordan-Fenton, she spoke with Shelagh Rogers about the 10th anniversary of Fatty Legsand how it inspired a bestselling series of books about residential school and also a generation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous children about the power of believing in yourself. That little girl was Margaret Pokiak-Fenton. The bestselling 2010 children's picture book Fatty Legstells the tale of a young Inuk girl named Olemaun who is desperate to learn to read in English - even if it means leaving behind her friends and family in her Arctic village. Olemaun is ready for whatever she may face at her residential school, but the challenges are more than she ever imagined. ![]()
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