By day, Eliot is a quiet boy who plays in his room, feeds cupcakes to his goldfish, and watches Mr. Smith wash his car. But, when the clock strikes midnight, he becomes Eliot Jones, Midnight Superhero! Armed with his amazing hypno-vision, his super strength and his super detecting skills, Eliot tackles the lions rampaging through [...]
Ordered to “Get!” when he begs at the picnic table for food, Stanley wanders down to the river and finds his good friends Alice and Nutsy and Gassy Jack. Bored and hungry, the dogs discover a trash can filled to the brim with all sorts of delicious treats, only to watch as the garbage truck [...]
David loves his Bubbie, and loves to visit her in her apartment above the Kuni Lemmel Bagel Shop. But he dreads going to see her on his birthday because each and every year, David’s Bubbie give him the same present for his birthday, a gift he neither wants nor appreciates. She gives him a stiff, [...]
When Emily’s dad breaks his promise to come outside and build snow animals in the backyard, she’s sad and angry. She stomps outside determined to build something all by herself. Something big. A dinosaur! She’s pretty happy with Grizzle, the Diphosaurus she makes, but, leaning out the window, dad calls Grizzle “cute and little”. With [...]
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 [...]
When Kataujaq was small, she loved her mother. She loved sniffing her, because that is the way that the Inuit kiss, and hugging her. In the spring, she loved holding onto her mother while they travelled across the melting sea ice in a canoe tied to the dogsled, slipping precariously from ice to [...]
Every winter, the people of Ungava Bay collect mussels by walking on the bottom of the sea. This is the story of a young girl’s very first time climbing down onto the sea bed alone.
After cutting a hole through the sea ice with her chisel, Eva lowers herself down into the hole with her [...]
When Allashua announces to her parents that she is going to go fishing on the sea ice, they tell her that the Qallupilliut come up from their homes at the bottom of the sea and take children who go out onto the sea ice without their parents. They tell her to go ice fishing on [...]
Five year-old Kitaq awakens early, and eagerly awaits the arrival of Apa, his grandfather. He hopes that today Apa will take him fishing in the ice. When Apa comes, the young boy assures his grandfather that he is big enough to walk all the way to the fishing holes and all the way back, and [...]
A young girl named Tiktala wants to become a soapstone carver so that she can become rich and famous, but is told by a village elder that she must go in search of a spirit helper. Transformed into a harp seal, she meets Tulimak, a seal who hates humans, who has been chosen to help [...]
