Where Did You Get Your Moccasins?

Title:  Where did you get your Moccasins?

Author:  Bernelda Wheeler

Illustrator: Herman Bekkering

Genre: Fiction

Where did you get Your Moccasins is about a boy who wears a pair of moccasins to school and students want to know where he got them, the boy informs his classmates that his Kookum (Grandmother) made them. The boy is very proud of his Moccasins as well as his heritage, he goes on to tell his classmates how the leather is made.

The story the boy tells about his grandmother making the shoes shows the struggles of the native Americans in the modern world. It was a shock to some students to hear that they had to make pieces of their wardrobe by hand out of materials they had available to them.

This book is more detailed and advanced, I would present this reading to a 5^th grade class in order for them to fully understand the leather making process as well as the cultural differences. The students can conversate about what they call their grandparents, since the boy in the book calls his Kookum. What are other interesting names students call their grandparents.