The first printing of My Street Remembers uses the phrase “Every Child Matters.” Since that printing, we have learned that this phrase is trademarked by the Orange Shirt Society. As such, we referred to it without authorization and outside the context of the significant work of Phyllis Webstad and the Orange Shirt Society.

The hope for My Street Remembers is to encourage young readers to learn about place to reflect more personally on Truth and Reconciliation. Phyllis Webstad and the Orange Shirt Society have long walked this path. Their encouragement of people to speak their truths and share their experiences has activated reconciliation efforts in Canada and internationally.

We fully support the mission of the Orange Shirt Society and Phyllis Webstad to honour Indian Residential School Survivors and their families. It was not our intention to profit from their work, yet our actions caused harm. We sincerely apologize to them for this error and are working with them to rectify it. 

— Karen Li, publisher of Groundwood Books, on behalf of author Karen Krossing and illustrator Cathie Jamieson