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A Promise is a Promise (Classic Munsch)

5 reviews
Robert N. Munsch, Michael Kusugak

Annick Press, 1992

Keeping promises
The Qallupilluq is an imaginary Inuit creature that lives on Hudson Bay, according to the book's afterward. This troll-like thing wears a parka made of loon feathers and is said to grab children when they walk near the cracks in the ice. This creature was invented much like others' hobgoblins, to frighten children into listening to their parents. This version of an encounter with the Qallupilluit ...

The Curse of the Shaman: A Marble Island Story
Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak

HarperCollins Canada, 2006

Northern Lights: The Soccer Trails

1 review
Michael Kusugak

Annick Press, 1993

Northern Lights: the Soccer Trails
This award winning picture book is the story of Kataujaq, a young girl living in Canada's arctic who loses her mother to a sudden illness. Kauaujaq greatly misses her mother, and several years pass with her dealing with her grief on her own. It is explained that the people of her village like to play soccer out on the sea ice under the moonlight, using a caribou skin ball stuffed with moss and ...

Baseball Bats for Christmas

2 reviews
Michael Kusugak

Annick Press, 1993

Delightful View into Inuit Culture
This is a wonderful story which conveys the resourcefulness of children. More than that, Michael provides a view from within the Inuit culture. He illuminates for those of us who did not grow up on the Arctic Circle what it is to live in that harsh environment. At the same time, he shows us how alike we all are: enjoying the holidays and a good baseball game with friends. Vladyana's ...

Hide and Sneak

1 review
Michael Kusugak

Annick Press, 1992

Extraordinary!
Everything about this book is extraordinary; the story, the characters, the creatures, the elaborate illustrations, and the details about the environment without being teachy. As a third grade teacher, I am always looking for stories from other cultures - having seen Michael Kusugak's name on a book by one of our favorite authors, Robert Munsch (A Promise is a promise), I looked for more of ...

Des battes de base-ball pour noel
Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak

Annick Press, 1994

Never having seen trees, the children in Repulse Bay decide that the funny things sent them one year must actually be baseball bats. An autobiographical tale from Michael Kusugak's childhood tells a story of life in the arctic, and easily different cultures can interpret things differently.

Who Wants Rocks?
Michael Kusugak

Annick Press, 1999

The award-winning team of Michael Kusugak and Vladyana Langer Krykorka are back with a new tale about how mountains were actually moved during the Yukon gold rush. Little Mountain is happy. All about her, there are big mountains, birds and forest life. She speaks to the world through the breeze and invites all to come and live with her. People come. Animals come. Birds come. And life is good. Old Joe the prospector also comes. He has ...

Arctic Stories
Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak

Annick Press, 1998

Acclaimed Inuit storyteller Michael Kusugak weaves a tapestry of tales about ten-year-old Agatha and her accidental heroism in the high Arctic of 1958. The first of Agatha's stories is based on one of Kusugak's real life experiences, when an eerie, black airship flew over Chesterfield Inlet in 1958. A sleepy Agatha "saves" the community from the monstrous flying object. In the second story, Agatha notices the playful antics of the winter ...

The Munschworks Grand Treasury

17 reviews
Robert N. Munsch, Michael Kusugak

Annick Press, 2001

This is the most awesome childrens book ever
Robert Munsch is my favorite author of children's books, because of the cool situations he puts his characters in. If you have kids, you need this book!

My Arctic 1, 2, 3
Michael Kusugak

Annick Press, 2005

Annick Press proudly celebrates the 10th anniversary of a treasured book. Whether as a returning reader or a first-time visitor, children of many ages will treasure Michael Kusugak's world of animals and adventure in the Arctic Circle. On each spread in My Arctic 1, 2, 3 , readers discover counting and creatures, and learn who's predator and who's prey. They witness five Arctic foxes hunting six furry siksiks. They watch seven fisherman ...

A Promise is a Promise

1 review
Robert N. Munsch, Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak

Dramatic Pub., 1995

Keeping promises
The Qallupilluq is an imaginary Inuit creature that lives on Hudson Bay, according to the book's afterward. This troll-like thing wears a parka made of loon feathers and is said to grab children when they walk near the cracks in the ice. This creature was invented much like others' hobgoblins, to frighten children into listening to their parents. This version of an encounter with the Qallupilluit ...

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