From the award-winning author of On the Trapline comes a cinematic fantasy-adventure story inspired by Indigenous legends.

One summer day, Lauren and her little brother, James, go on a trip to the land with their Moshom (grandfather). After they've arrived, the children decide to fish for dinner while Moshom naps. They are in their canoe in the middle of the lake when the water around them begins to swirl and crash. They are thrown overboard and when Lauren surfaces she sees her brother being pulled away by the Memekwesewak — creatures who live in and around water and like to interfere with humans. Lauren must follow the Memekwesewak through a portal and along a watery path to find and bring back James.

But when she finally comes upon her brother, she too feels the lure of the Memekwesewak's song. Something even stronger must pull them back home. (From Tundra Books)

David A. Robertson is a writer and graphic novelist based in Winnipeg. He has published books across a variety of genres, including the graphic novels Will I See? and Sugar Falls, YA book Strangers, the memoir Black Water and the Governor General's Literary Award-winning picture books When We Were Alone and On the Trapline, both illustrated by Cree-Métis artist Julie Flett.

Maya McKibbin is two-spirited Ojibway, Yoeme and Irish filmmaker, illustrator and storyteller based in Vancouver. McKibbin previously illustrated the picture book Swift Fox All Along, written by Rebecca Thomas.