Moonbeam

How did you get your name? Who named you? Why were you given your name? How do we name our children? Using the traditional practice of naming children, this first story about Moonbeam and the story of how she got her name. She tags along with her mother Morning Star to deliver a baby and she tries to guess the new baby’s name.

Gail Francis was born and raised in the Tobique First Nation Community in Northwestern New Brunswick. She comes from the Wolastoqey Nation under the Wabanaki Confederacy. Gail lives on the unsurrendered and unceded traditional territory of the Wolastoqiyik, Mi’kmaq and Passamaquoddy Nations. She presently lives in Miramichi, New Brunswick, with her husband. Gail is an educator, a lifelong learner and an avid reader. She is an advocate of reading as a source of learning and entertainment. It is her love of the written word and her culture that led her to embark upon Moonbeam. Tara Audibert is an illustrator, film maker, animator and fine artist. She is of hybrid Wolastoqey/French heritage and resides in Sunny Corner, NB. She owns Moxy Fox Studio and her first independent animated film "The Importance of Dreaming" 2017 won UNICEF'S Best Children's Film 2018. She is also a co-founder of the female led Ni'gweg Collective, striving to bring together First Nations tradition and culture with contemporary technology through art, storytelling, animation and games. Moxyfox.ca