Book Review: Kids’ book for everyone

Roy Vickers has done it again. With startling vivid colours and his trademark embossed  symbols worked into skies, oceans and mountain, the B.C. First Nations artist has teamed with CBC radio host and author Robert Budd to deliver a delightful children’s book that will be enjoyed by all.

Vickers uses some illustrations from past work, but mainly new pieces to tell the story of Weget, a boy whose parents can see is going to be very large indeed. When they take him to the Chiefs to find out what his great size is all about, they are told the Chiefs have been waiting for him for a great deal of time. Weget must go on a journey and in the end, brings light to the darkness that his people have been living in. A universal tale.

“Raven Brings the Light”; Roy Henry Vickers & Robert Budd, Harbour Publishing 2013

–Laura Robinson