Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults

This chapter takes up a moment in the production of the Rocky Cree picturebook, Pīsim Finds Her Miskanaw (2020), when a gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of knowing was made evident to team members involved in the project. In thinking through this event, which centred on the portrayal of dignity in a key scene of the book, we turn to Dian Million’s conceptualization of felt theory (2009, 2013) to consider the extent to which the work of emotion must be understood as part of larger d