Nadia Sammurtok
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Comfy Cozy: Feel-Good Books for All Children
Diverse books - Native Americans, American Indians, First Nations, and Indigenous Peoples Around the World
Sky Bear 2023
Diverse books - Native Americans, American Indians, First Nations, and Indigenous Peoples Around the World
Sky Bear 2023
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"Nadia Sammurtok lovingly invites the reader into the amautik--the pouch in the back of a mother's parka used to carry a child--to experience everything through the eyes of the baby nestled inside, from the cloudlike softness of the pouch to the glistening sound of Anaana's laughter."--
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Two rabbit sisters go out to play and forget their parents' warning to stay hidden from predators. An owl snatches both of them but can't fly with two rabbits in his talons. His greed won't let him release just one. He lets them both go and follows the rabbits, but this time they devise a plan to get away. Based on a traditional Inuit story.
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Piujuq is a kind young woman who loves to take long walks on the tundra and dance by her favourite lake surrounded by butterflies. But one day, she encounters a stranger on her walk. When this person asks a favour of Piujuq, she happily obliges, and that kindness leaves Piujuq stuck in the body of a caterpillar. Alone, and thinking that no one could ever love her because of how she looks, Piujuq does not return to her camp. Instead, she lives a lonely...
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Siuluk is a very strong man. He's so strong that people tell him he must be the last of the Tuniit, friendly giants who once lived in the North. Just like those giants, Siuluk is so strong that he can carry an entire walrus over his shoulder.
But not everyone believes that Siuluk is strong. One day, when a group of men tease Siuluk about his size, he has to find a way to prove his strength once and for all, but how?