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When Allashua announces that she is going out to play hide and seek with her friends, her mother warns her not to go too far away because an Ijiraq might hide her and, that if an Ijiraq hides her, no one will ever be able to find her again. Allashua goes to play hid and seek, but she isn’t very good at it. She keeps getting distracted by what is going on around her, and forgetting to hide. She chases butterflies, watches the loons, explores bugs in a small pond, and chirps at the nestlings in a nest she that she discovers.
When she meets a tiny little man all covered in fur the colour of a ptarmigan’s feathers, she knows he is an Ijiraq but he is so funny and clumsy and playful, she dismisses her mother’s warning about him being dangerous and lets him hide her in a cave she has never seen before. After several hours waiting in the cave for her friends to find her, Allashua grows tired and hungry and says she wants to leave, but the Ijiraq says that she can’t because they haven’t been found yet. Allashua realizes that, unless she comes up with fast with a good plan to get herself out of the Ijirak’s clutches, she will never see her family again.
Hide and Sneak is the story of a heedless but resourceful girl who finds herself in desperate trouble when she ignores her mother’s warnings and wanders away in the company of a little creature of Inuit legend. It continues the adventures of Allashua, whom we first met in A Promise is a Promise by Robert Munsch and Michael Kusugak.
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