Born in 1948, Normee Ekoomiak lived in a snow house in the winter and in a tent made of animal skins during the summer months. With his family, he followed the animals, moving to the sea ice in the winter to hunt seal, to the river in the spring to fish for Arctic char, [...]
When an elderly Inuit woman, who is frequently forced to rely upon her neighbours for food, finds a small orphaned bear cub, she adopts him as her son and names him Kunikdjuaq. The little bear shares the old woman’s meager meals, plays with the village children, and forms a deep and abiding attachment to [...]
When they return to their Inuit village from a fruitless day of hunting, Brother and Little Sister find all of its inhabitants gone. After weeks of no game, the village’s hunters have decided to move the community across the river, and the two orphans are overlooked. Though the children follow their people to [...]
My Arctic 1, 2, 3 is a counting book that celebrates the creatures of sea and land that inhabit the Arctic, the beauty of the tundra, and the Inuit who claim the region as their home. From polar bears on the hunt, to siksiks alert to the presence of Arctic foxes, to fishermen repairing a [...]
When his father offers three meals a day to Joe, a homeless man who hangs around in front of the family store, in exchange for sweeping the sidewalk every morning, a young boy wants to know why they are helping the man. His father explains that every one needs to know that they have [...]
Poor Jake simply wants to read his book but his little sister, Louise, has other ideas. She dances into his room, plays with his toys, and bounces on his bed. When Jake becomes frustrated and announces that he’s going to leave and she won’t be able to find him, Louise retorts that he can change [...]
Afraid of getting close to someone who might prove dangerous, Scaredy Squirrel has never had a friend. But, bored and tired of thinking up activities to do by himself, Scaredy leaps at the opportunity to make friends with the goldfish who lives in the fountain near his nut tree. While the goldfish might [...]
When the kingdom of Thibodeau announces the birth of a royal baby, the Queen of Iddison sets out to gather the finest gifts both from her own kingdom and from the lands between her kingdom and that of Thibodeau. She composes a long list of items and eight great carts, pulled by eight elephants, are [...]
An animal who hunts by night and likes his solitary, nocturnal existence, Fox awakens unexpectedly one morning to the knowledge that something is about to happen. He joins hundreds of other animals, all of them traveling with their mates, in a trek that lasts for many days and takes Fox and his traveling [...]
When Bird wakes up grumpy, one morning, he is too grouchy to fly, so he sets out on foot. Greeted first by one friend and then another, Bird clearly wants to be left alone but, despite his attempts to deter them, every one of his friends decides to join him on his walk.
Bird stalks on, [...]
