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Selected
Books and Nunavut Teaching Resources
Picture
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Non-Fiction
Sources for borrowing or for purchase
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Very Last First
Time.
Andrews, Jan.
Illustrated by Ian Wallace. Toronto: Groundwood Books/Douglas &
McIntyre, 1985. 32 p.
ISBN 0-88899-043-X.
Inuit girl from village on Ungava
Bay is allowed to gather mussels by herself on the ocean floor at
low tide, under the thick ice.
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Mama, Do You
Love Me?
Joosse, Barbara M.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1991. 26 p.
ISBN 0-87701-759-X.
Imaginative "how much do you love me", "I
love you this much" game between young daughter and mother Inuit
from northern Alaska. Illustrations depict traditional life.
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Arctic Stories.
Kusuguk, Michael Arvaaluk.
Illustrated by Vladyanna Langer Krykorka. Toronto: Annick Press,
1998. 40 p.
ISBN 1-55037-452-4
Three semi-autobiographical stories about
growing up in Repulse Bay by Inuit storyteller and children's book
author.
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Hide and Sneak.
Kusugak, Michael Arvaaluk.
Illustrated by Vladyanna Krykorka. Toronto: Annick Press, 1992.
[32p].
ISBN 1-55037-229-7.
Girl plays farther and farther away but
finds her way back by an Inukshuk, the standing stones.
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Northern Lights:
The Soccer Trails.
Kusuguk, Michael Arvaaluk.
Toronto, Annick Press, 1993. 32 p.
ISBN 1-55037-339-0.
Based on an Inuit tale about
the mystical aspects of the northern lights--the souls of the dead
play soccer using a walrus head as the ball--the author tells
about the death of a young girl's mother, grieving, and rejoicing
when watching the northern lights.
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My Arctic 1, 2,
3.
Kusuguk, Michael Arvaaluk.
Illustrated by Vladyanna Krykorka. Toronto: Annick Press, 1996. 24
p.
ISBN 1-55037-505-9
Enumerating arctic animals, with Inutitut
words below. "One polar bear...Two ringed seals...Six
siksiks..."
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Baseball Bats
for Christmas.
Kusuguk, Michael Arvaaluk.
Illustrated by Vladyanna Krykorka. Toronto: Annick Press, 1990. 24
p.
ISBN 1-55037-145-2.
The December delivery plane to Repulse Bay
brought several Christmas trees to an area which has no trees of
any kind. Inuit boys turned them into baseball bats.
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A Promise is a
Promise.
Munsch, Robert and Michael Kusugak.
Illustrated by Vladyana Kroyorka. Toronto: Annick Press, 1988.
ISBN 1-55037-009-X .
Inuit girl tests her mother's warning
against the Qallupilluq and tangles with imaginary Inuit
creatures.
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Ytek and the
Arctic Orchid: an Inuit Legend
Hewitt, Garnet.
Illustrated by Heather Woodall. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre,
1981. 38p. ISBN 0-88894-238-9.
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Amorak
Jessell, Tim.
Minnesota: Creative Editions, 1994. 30p. ISBN 1-568460929.
In this retelling of an Inuit creation myth, Grandfather explains
why the caribou and the wolf are brothers.
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Dreamstones
Trottier, Maxine.
Illustrated by Stella East. Toronto, Stoddart Kids, 1999. 22 pp.
ISBN 0-7737-3191-1.
David comes to the land
of the Inuit on his father's ship. As his father draws the flora
and fauna, David collects stones and bones. When the ship becomes
iced in, the voyagers must stay the winter. One night, David
looks out the porthole and sees foxes running in the snow. He
follows them and gets lost. He is aided by a man dressed in fur,
who spends the night telling him about the secret dreams of
animals.
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Caribou Girl
Murphy, Claire Rudoff.
Illustrated by Linda Russell. Boulder, Colorado: Roberts Rinehart
Publishers, 1998. 32p. ISBN 1-57098-145-0.
Inuit girl dreams of the
caribou, and is given an amulet to find them. She travels into the
sky and she is turned into a caribou so that she will learn the
ways of the herd. By learning their cycles, she comes to
understand how her people must behave in the future in order to
survive.
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Tiktala
Shaw-MacKinnon, Margaret Alison.
Illustrated by Laszalo Gal. Toronto: Stoddart, 1996. 32 p. ISBN
0-7737-2920-8.
After expressing her
wish to become a great soapstone carver, Tiktala, a young Inuit
girl, is sent to find her spirit helper. Transformed into a harp
seal, Tiktala gains the understanding and wisdom she needs to
return to her people and begin practicing her carving.
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The Shaman's
Nephew: A Life in the Far North
Simon Tookoome and Sheldon Oberman.
Toronto: Stoddart Kids, 1999. 55p. ISBN 0-7737-3200-4.
An Intuit artist, one of
the last of his people to live nomadically and hunt the land,
tells the story of his life - which is also the vanished life of
the Intuit - in his pictures and in the text. Upfront about
his stance as an outsider, co-author Oberman uses his western eyes
as a bridge between reader and the Intuit culture, without
condescending or sentimentalizing the culture.
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Non-Fiction
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The Inuit
Lassieur, Allison.
Mankato: Bridgestone Books, 2000. 24p. ISBN 0736804986.
One aspect of life,
such as history, housing, government, and daily life, is
covered on each double-page spread. Clear and colorful
full-page photos show contemporary clothing, houses, tribal
industry, and ceremonies. Easily understood text, numerous
photos, and contemporary as well as historical coverage make
this an excellent series to introduce young readers to Inuit.
A tribe-specific, hands-on activity; a glossary; a reading
list; and addresses and Internet sites round out this book.
Karen Hutt |
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The Inuksuk
Book
Wallace, Mary.
Toronto: Owl Books, 1999. 64 p. ISBN 1-895688-90-6.
For hundreds of
years the Inuit have built stone structures called inuksuit.
The various structures have been used to point the way for
travelers, show where food is stored, and even warn of
dangerous places. The author describes the daily routines of
the Inuit as she demonstrates the importance of the
inuksuit, historically and in contemporary times.
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Make Your
Own Inuksuk
Wallace, Mary
Toronto: Owl Books, 2001. ISBN: 1894379101
Today, Inuit often
build Inuksuit in the shape of human figures. The author
provides step-by-step instructions on how to create a
nine-stone inuksuk, where to place it, and the types of
expression one can give it. Helpful information is also
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Nunavut
Hancock, Lynn
Hello Canada Series. Markham, ON: Fitzhenry&Whiteside, 1995.
ISBN: 0822527588
Factual and photo-rich
introduction to the people, culture, geography, history, and
economy of Nunavut. Middle school level reference.
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Nunavut
Handbook: Traveling in Canada's Arctic
Soubliee,
Marion and Martin
Marion (Editors),
and
John Amagoalik (Introduction)
1998, 1999 ISBN: 1550365878
The 1999 Nunavut
Handbook authored largely by Nunavut writers is the world's
most comprehensive travel guidebook to the Canadian Arctic.
In additional to vital travel information, the Handbook
includes extensive cultural and historical accounts of the
Inuit inhabitants, their extraordinary land claim, and
politics, with an explanation of the structure of Canada's
newest territorial government.
See this handbook on-line at:
http://www.arctictravel.com/
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Arctic Community
Kalman, Bobbie and Belsey, William.
Toronto: Crabtree Publishing Company, 1988. ISBN:
0865051577
Photograph-rich
elementary and middle school level reference book, covering
current life in Rankin Inlet. At time book was written,
Rankin Inlet was part of Northwest Territories, and book
reflects this. It now is part of Nunavut.
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Frozen Land
Reynolds, Jan
Harcourt Children's Books, 1993. ISBN: 0152387870
A vivid photographic journey to the far
north of Canada profiles the Inuit people who live in the
Arctic, capturing their traditional and rapidly disappearing
way of life.
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The Kids
Book of the Far North..
Love, Ann & Jane Drake.
Illustrated by Jocelyne Bouchard. Toronto: Kids Can Press,
2000.
ISBN 1-55074-563-8.
Well-illustrated elementary and middle
school level reference, covering Arctic environment, plant and
animal life, ancient peoples, Arctic riches, and everyday life
of people from the eight countries above the Arctic circle.
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Houses of
Snow, Skin and Bones: Native Dwellings: the Far North.
Shemie, Bonnie.
Tundra Books, 1989. 24 p. ISBN 0-88776-240-9.
Elementary and middle school level
illustrated reference of Arctic native dwellings.
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