Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Discover the rich culture and park of the Anishinaabe Peoples
Rabbit Chase
What you need to know before your trail
Aimée, a non-binary Anishinaabe middle-schooler, is on a class trip to offer gifts to Paayehnsag, the water spirits known to protect the land. While stories are told about the water spirits and the threat of the land being taken over for development, Aimée zones out, distracting themselves from the bullying and isolation they’ve experienced since expressing their non-binary identity. When Aimée accidentally wanders off, they are transported to an alternate dimension populated by traditional Anishinaabe figures in a story inspired by Alice in Wonderland.
To gain the way back home, Aimée is called on to help Trickster by hunting down dark water spirits with guidance from Paayehnsag. On their journey, Aimée faces off with the land-grabbing Queen and her robotic guards and fights the dark water spirits against increasingly stacked odds
Locations
ResetTravel Guide
Anishinaabe culture and Petroglyphs Provincial Park
This wonderful park is celebrated and well evoked in the story which introduces the culture and heritage of the Anishiinaable culture to children.
Petroglyphs are Indigenous rock carvings and there are plenty in the park depicting turtles, snakes, birds, humans and more; this sacred site is known as “The Teaching Rocks”
At the Learning Place Visitor Centre you can discover the traditions of the Ojibway (Nishnaabe) people through the teachings of the medicine wheel.
The McGinnis Lake is a very vivid blue and green hue – one of only a handful of meromictic (layers of water that don’t intermix) lakes in Canada. You have to see it to believe it!
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Rabbit Chase
Destination : Ontario Author/Guide: Elizabeth LaPensée Departure Time: 2000s
Back to ResultsWhere Next?
