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Julie Flett

Julie Flett is a Cree-Métis author and illustrator of numerous award-winning picture books, including Birdsong, We All Play, and Wild Berries. Her work has received a Governor General’s Literary Award, the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, and other national and international distinctions. Flett’s books are celebrated for their quiet power, distinctive visual style, and celebration of Indigenous life and language. She lives in Vancouver. 

Writers & Books

Award History

2025 - Winner

Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People

Jury Citation

“Rooted in her Cree-Métis identity and languages, Julie Flett has created a body of work that hums with warmth, beauty, and meaning. Her books are spare and graceful, subtle, yet rich with feeling—offering children bilingual storytelling in which Métis and Cree children are seen and heard and, at the same time, opening new worlds in which non-Indigenous children can explore and delight. Flett invites her young readers to slow down, to listen, to notice. Her stories centre family, community, and the natural world, affirming that these ways of knowing and seeing belong at the very heart of Canada’s story.” —2025 Vicky Metcalf jury (Peter Ho, Susan Perren, and Rebecca Thomas)

Works Recognized by WT