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The lack of national homogeneity is reflected in both CanLit and its counterpart for children, and rather than being a weakness, the multitude of voices that inhabit the Canadian territory has become its essence and strength. Lately, we have noticed a growing interest and market demand for picture books by Indigenous voices. Melanie Florence is one such voice, and she honours her past by bringing to the fore the inescapable dark weight of collective tragedies such as the residential school system and the disappearance and murder of Aboriginal women and girls, a hidden national crisis. In this article, we aim at getting to know and help readers discover <jats:italic>Missing Nim\u00e2m\u00e2<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Stolen Words<\/jats:italic> by this new picture book writer, who is speaking up and voicing First Nations\u2019 concerns, bringing back memories, but also forging a space for dialogue and negotiation, a space where text and illustration are combined and provide a harmonious whole. In this space, difference and binarisms do not result in dualism, but in highly synergistic relationships.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.2478\/aa-2022-0009","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,21]],"date-time":"2022-12-21T16:13:35Z","timestamp":1671639215000},"page":"22-36","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Forging a space for dialogue and negotiation in modern picture books by Melanie Florence"],"prefix":"10.17846","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Susana","family":"Amante","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Viseu , Av. 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