Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family

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Anthropologist Jean Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the "adopted daughter" of an Eskimo family. Through vignettes of daily life she unfolds a warm and perceptive tale of the behavioral patterns of the Utku, their way of training children, and their handling of deviations from desired behavior.

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Touching first hand account.......2003-11-30

Never In Anger was an assigned book for my first year anthropology class at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Jean Briggs' alma mater. This ethnography opened my eyes to the wonderful field of cultural anthropology. Jean's honesty concerning her observations of her adopted family made the story real for me, and would for anyone. Never In Anger is a wonderful study of a culture that highly prizes emotional restraint and family ties. By reading this book, one is forced to draw parallels to today's Western Societial values. Highly recommended!

You try living on the edge of survival in an alien culture.........2000-11-12

It's an engaging first-hand account from an anthropologist who went to live with an Inuit family. She gives a very candid account of her own difficulties in adapting to their culture.

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Great for moms with a new baby (and older child)
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A Keeper!
My Twins and I Love This Book
Beautiful and Simple

On Mother's Lap
Ann Herbert Scott
Manufacturer: Clarion Books
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ASIN: 0395629764

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A little Inuit boy discovers there's room for himself and his baby sister on their mother's lap.

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Great for moms with a new baby (and older child).......2007-09-21

This is a very touching book to reassure moms and children that life with a new baby means more love to go around. I have bought it for many friends. Those first months with a new baby are definitely a time of adjustment as the new baby needs so much attention and the older child has to wait (or the older child needs a lot of attention and the baby has to wait!) so this book is a nice, subtle reminder that there is always room on mother's lap. The last page definitely brings tears to the eyes!

AWESOME.......2007-03-08

This is a great book if you have a new baby come into the house. My son and I read this book every night and then he reads it back to me. I would recomment this book highly.

A Keeper!.......2006-09-01

This is a very sweet and wonderful story about a boy who is rocking on his mother's lap. He gathers all sorts of things from around the room and they continue to rock. When his mom suggests his baby sister join them he isn't thrilled but they all fit and he is happy. I read this story to my group of two year olds and they absolutely love it. We rock back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And we discuss how there really is always room on mom's lap. This story is timeless and enjoyed by Toddlers to Kindergarteners

My Twins and I Love This Book.......2006-02-01

I received this book as a baby shower gift for my twins and felt it was a very fitting book for our situation. What I didn't expect was how much my babies would love it. They immediately identified with the boy, Dollie, Boat and LOVE Puppy. I think the pictures really attract them and I love the message. Now at 2 1/2, it is still on their favorite bedtime story list and they can now understand the message - they say, "On Mommy's Lap" as we all sit together and read.

Beautiful and Simple.......2005-05-26

I just love this book. It's a great gift for someone who has just had their 2nd child; a great gift for a child with a new sibling! I bought this when my 3 year old's class was studying North America. It shows a different culture but it's a theme that is universal.

Faith, Food, and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community (Mclellan Book)

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Faith, Food, and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community (Mclellan Book)
Carol Zane Jolles
Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
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Through Yup'ik Eyes: An Adopted Son Explores the Landscape of Family

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A Ground-Breaking Work
From Yup'ik Eyes

Through Yup'ik Eyes: An Adopted Son Explores the Landscape of Family
Colin Chisholm
Manufacturer: Alaska Northwest Books
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This haunting memoir seeks to define many dimensions of the human drama. Its poetic quality will make you remember this story long after you finish the book.

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A Ground-Breaking Work.......2000-12-07

Colin Chisholm's Through Yup'ik Eyes is a truly remarkable and ground-breaking work.

The subject of Mr. Chisholm's book is his mother, and his love and respect for her shine through on every single page of this hauntingly written book. The fact that he devoted several years to his quest to learn about his mother's past is itself a remarkable undertaking. What he produced as a result of his travels and studies is a compelling look at a woman who wanted desperately to go "home," but was unable to do so. What makes Through Yup'ik Eyes so truly inspiring is that Mr. Chisholm did in fact find a way to take his mother home. Through his efforts, she was posthumously reunited with her relatives after so many painful years of being away.

We live in a changing world, and not the least of the changes are the new ways we are finding to define our identities. Mr. Chisholm succeeded in returning his mother to her beloved Alaska, but he also made a big stride in offering a definition of family. Rather than painting an entire group of people with one brush, what Mr. Chisholm offers is a deeply moving picture of one woman and her relationship to her son.

From Yup'ik Eyes.......2000-12-05

A humbling, chilling, sensitive, compassionate portrayal of a love toward a mother, and the search for the identity of a silent history, is truly extracted by the author about his experience as a child of a mother whom he wants strongly to understand.

To create a story about a culture one only has glimpses of as one is growing up because of some silence or resistence that brought the parent to carry is, in and of itself, a very difficult task to bear. Colin Chisholm in blending reality and fiction into a heart-felt document, unfolds the silent stories of many children who, like his mother, were taken away during the tuberculosis and influenza epidemic that killed so many of the Yup'ik Eskimo people at the turn of the 2oth century. In one sense Colin's mother was fortunate to be able to live; whereas so many people such as my grandparents, were not -- who knew and possibly saw Mrs. Chisholm being taken away at such a tender age, never to be seen again. A sensitive topic written with respect about a culture the author only knows a little of is truly an honorable effort. I commend Mr. Chisholm in telling part of my Yup'ik history in a way that brings out the love, the struggles, and the determination to survive that Yup'ik people faced, and continue to face.

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In the late 1960's, in the small community of Bethel, Alaska, a beaten teenager named Dove Alexie is in prison. One day, he mysteriously vanishes, and curiously, there is no mention of hi s arrival or departure on the prison records. Four young people in Bethel tell their stories, and the narrative circles around Dove – their unseen companion.

Told with humour and insight, Unseen Companion spins together four unique voices that capture the complexities of human existence and the search for one's place in the universe.

o Based on the author's own experiences living and doing social work in fourteen Alaskan bush villages, which left Orenstein uniquely qualified to write the kind of loss and hopelessness presented in this novel.

o An intriguing and layered narrative structure, unique voices, and a brilliant over–arching metaphor that sums up one's place in the universe make this a unique and resonant book that will stick with readers for years to come.

Ages 12 +

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WAAAAA~~~.......2005-03-26

I hav'int read this book but by the way this girl skakes her mini i can tell she been used up a bad bok bt still you should read it, it's GOOD!!

Amazing Book!.......2004-06-08

This book was terrific! It is a must read for all teenagers. It has a quick plot with at least one character that everyone, no matter who you are, can identify with. I'd recommend it to everyone!!!

Unseen Compainon By:Denise Gosliner Orenstein.......2004-05-04

"Bethel, Alska- a small community in a stark landscape where a powerful and richly textured story spins together, one voice at a time.
It is late 1960s as beaten teenaged Dove Alexie sits in prison. One day, Dove suddenly vanishes, and there is nothing in the prison records to mark his arrival and departure. Out of the tundra, four young people step forward with their sotries.
Lorianne Hobbs, a precious loner who brings meals to the prison; Annette Weinland, the local ministers daoughter, who volenteers at the prison; Thelma Cooke and Edger Kwaigly, two yup'ik adolescents orphand and displaced from their native communtites.
At the core of each narriation is Dove - and the mystery of his disaperance.
lIke planets in the solar system, these four young people travel in seperate orbits with an unseen companion,..... Dove! Denise Gsoliner Orenstein's masterpiece of interviewing voices captures the complexities of human exisitence with humor and insight."

After reading that I can tell that there are going to be alot of discription, because they way she ties the solar system into the review of the story, I know she has imagination.
So I would really want you to read this book!

Reminded me of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.......2004-02-13

Though it was set in the cold muddy tundra of Alaska, 'Unseen Companion' reminded me of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. Dove Alexie is as mysterious and haunting as Boo Radley, though he's a completely different kind of character. The reader is left with a sense of outrage at the racial injustice that takes place, and yet there is humor to lighten the darkness. The characters of Lorraine and her mother are particularly enjoyable. Though the narrators (four of them) are all teenagers, this is not just a book for teens, any more than 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is a children's book because the narrator is a child. The narrators speak in an authentic vernacular, and yet the writing is lyrical and beautiful. The images of stars and planets wheel in the background, along with the wonder of man's first step on the moon. I expect this book to become a classic.

Outstanding1.......2003-09-26

This book was recommended by a friend, and I have to say I am eternally grateful to her. I couldn't put it down. Ms. Orenstein writes with compassion and understanding of the complexities which bind and separate people. And in a single paragraph I was often moved to both laughter and tears.

In addition to a compelling plot -- a young man who is jailed and then seemly disappears (the book is also a bit of a mystery story!) -- the author rights authoritatively about Alaska, making you almost believe you have visited the town of Bethel, and have wandered its street, and feel your heart tugged by the relentless poverty and isolation. More than anything, she writes of the terrible toll this takes on the children, who have no escape.

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Ticasuk, a 20th-century Inupiat Eskimo woman, writes a true and compelling account of generations of an Alaskan Native Family.

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*HIGH ADVENTURE SERVED UP WITH RAW MEAT*
5th grade book review by Nails
Ice Drift
Ice Drift
ICE DRIFT!

Ice Drift
Theodore Taylor
Manufacturer: Harcourt Children's Books
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ASIN: 0152050817

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The year is 1868, and fourteen-year-old Alika and his younger brother, Sulu, are hunting for seals on an ice floe attached to their island in the Arctic. Suddenly the ice starts to shake, and they hear a loud crack--the terrible sound of the floe breaking free from land. The boys watch with horror as the dark expanse of water between the ice and the shore rapidly widens, and they start drifting south--away from their home, their family, and everything they've ever known.

Throughout their six-month-long journey down the Greenland Strait, the brothers face bitter cold, starvation, and most frightening of all, vicious polar bears. But they still remain hopeful that one day they'll be rescued.

This thrilling new adventure story from bestselling author Theodore Taylor is a moving testament to the bond between brothers--and to the strength of the human spirit.

Includes a map, a glossary of Inuit words and phrases, and an author's note..

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*HIGH ADVENTURE SERVED UP WITH RAW MEAT*.......2007-10-01

Theodore Taylor, author of gripping adventure stories ("The Cay" - #044022912X) has written a tale filled with familial warmth and cultural nuggets, "ICE DRIFT." It centers on life among the Inuit in settlements north of Baffin Island. Their living arrangements & diet are of particular interest. Foods such as 'blood pudding' are mentioned, and also the unusual talent of 'throat singing'.

As the niece of an Antarctic explorer who died in an igloo while doing climate studies for the government in 1950s, I am curious to know why a Horn Book reviewer described Theodore Taylor's book as "a routine survival story"! That has to be an oxymoron? Some tales of discovery may suffer from excess 'embroidery' but Taylor has authored a winner that will reach an audience far wider than the targeted middle graders. (In a different way Andrew Revkin's book "The North Pole Was Here" - #0753461382 - shows how global warming has caused drastic changes in the Arctic Circle).

Two young boys find themselves adrift on a narrow floe in the Greenland Strait after an iceberg breaks loose. Just staying alive is their aim but to somehow draw attention of rescuers competes for top attention. Ten year old Sulu peppers his older brother Alika, asking anxiously about what their parents might be doing at that moment, or, questioning how long it will take before someone sees them float by. Taylor's descriptions of the brothers show them deeply anxious for each other's welfare; Alika, who becomes fifteen during the long ordeal, is especially sensitive to Sulu's different personality and interests.

Decades later we are asking how these people & their culture have survived arrogance and power grabs, as well as all the environmental mistakes that have been made, primarily by governments and corporations. Taylor's book "ICE DRIFT" is not about a government's inhumanity (as described in Melanie McGrath's "The Long Exile" - #0007157975) but is a tale of boys adapting to the worst circumstances imaginable with courage and fortitude, drawing faith from what their Shaman has taught.

In Capatin Thierry Mallett's book ("Plain Tales of the North - #B00008639AE, published in 1925 & 1925) a similar quandary is faced by two even younger brothers. Both stories may have been inspired by an incident recorded in 1868. Moving at a fast momentum these tales will grip your interest and propel readers to satisfying conclusions. This reader/reviewer gives each high marks and will soon be recommending more books, and films, on the exciting subject of "poles apart".

5th grade book review by Nails.......2007-09-01

In my wildest dreams I can not imagine living on an ice floe for 7 days let alone 7 months. Well that is what Ice Drift is about. It was written by a very talented author named Theodore Taylor. This adventure book is about two brothers and their dog that are stranded on an ice floe. What will happen?
The main characters in this book are 14 year old Alika, 10 year old Sulu, and their dog Jamka. Alika is strong, courageous, and skillful. Jamka is helpful and protective, and Sulu is understanding, meek, and full of questions. The adventure starts when the chunk of ice Alika, Sulu and Jamka are standing upon breaks off and drifts away while Alika is hunting seals. The big question in their minds is will we survive?
A big problem and event in this story is survival. Alika, Sulu, and Jamka needed shelter, food, and protection. For shelter they built a big igloo out of chuncks of ice. The igloo takes a whole day to build. For food they stood at seal holes picked out by Jamka. Alika and Sulu stood for hours sometimes without catching anything, but most of the time they did. Lastly, they needed protection from predators, especially naunk (polar bears). Their hard work finally paid off when they got rescued by hunters. It was a good thing too, because Sulu fell in the water near the end of their adventure on the ice floe. He got sick, but he got the care he needed when they got rescued. They all made it!
My favorite scene in the book was when Alika, Sulu, and Jamka's homecoming. To me, this was a symbol of the courage and strength it took to overcome their challenges and live to tell the story. My favorite character in Ice Drift was Alika because at night when Sulu would ask questions about their home village of Nunatak, he would always try to answer them in the most positive way.
What really stood out for me was how the author put lots of work making the characters so interesting, and how every minute of the book was so good you didn't want to put it down. I would highly recommend this book because it has a lot of adventure, survival, and the characters are fun. I would rate this book a nine for the same reasons. Ice Drift is a great book!

Ice Drift.......2007-04-25

What if you were stranded on a huge ice floe for six months, fighting starvation and polar bears? Inuit brothers, Alika and Sulu, had this happen to them. They were hunting for seals when suddenly the ice started to shake, and then cracked. The ice floe was breaking free from land! The only thing they could do was watch themselves drifting away from everything they've ever know, toward the Greenland strait. They built a shelter quickly, but the hunt for seals, their main food, toke longer then they expected. Polar bears come and go, and energy was running out. Jamka, their lead sled dog that stayed faithfully with his owners, did all he could to keep the brothers safe. The sled that was once full of supplies had run out and was stripped to only a few scraps of wood. Then, when the sun came out, the ice floe began to shrink. Will they survive?
I really enjoyed this book because it leaves suspense at the end of every chapter. My favorite part of the story is when the polar bear is about to attack Sulu, and Alika...well, you'll have to read the story to see what happens. Theodore Taylor writes so realistically that it's almost like you're on the ice floe with the brothers. I recommend this book for kids who like to read about survival and the strength between two brothers.

Ice Drift.......2006-06-21

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I think ice drift would interest people that like non- fiction books because it is a book with lots of things that happen in real life. I also think it would interest people that like books with hunting or takes place in the Arctic because the book takes place in the Arctic and there is lots of hunting. I also think it is a good book for people who like adventures because Alika and Sulu get to have an adventure that some people don't even imagine having.

Theodore Taylor (the writer of ice drift) has written over fifty books and has won twenty three medals. The first book he wrote was The Magnificent Mitscher.

Ice drift is about two Inuit brothers Alika who is 14 and his brother Sulu who is 10. One day when they were seal hunting together a big chunk of ice they were on broke off and they started floating away. Alika and Sulu sent their dogs to get help. While they drifted south they caught seals and ran into bears. After Kussu, Alika and Sulks dad, broke his leg Maja, their mom, went to find Alika and Sulu by herself.

ICE DRIFT!.......2006-06-19

"Ice Drift" is a story of two Inuit brothers who drift south on an ice floe. Many dangerous adventures happen to them like being attacked by a polar bear, worrying about their melting ice floe, falling in the water, and hunting for food. When the brothers go missing, their parents become very worried, so their mother goes looking for her sons. This book, "Ice Drift", is about family and survival.

Theodore Taylor, the author of "Ice Drift", has a great way of creating an awesome story that is inspired by another person's life experience. "Ice Drift" is detailed and exciting, especially the part when Alika had to climb the iceberg.

I think that "Ice Drift" is a great book because it teaches you to cooperate with each other, especially during hard times. If you can't cooperate with each other, you won't be able accomplish many things, or it can take you a long time to solve problems. In "Ice Drift", Sulu and Alika get stranded on an ice floe. They need to cooperate to survive. So if you would like to read a book about survival and cooperation, "Ice Drift" is the perfect book.

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Caribou Girl
Claire Rudolf Murphy
Manufacturer: Roberts Rinehart Publishers
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In this authentic tale of the nomadic Inuit people, Caribou Girl relies on traditional values and her own instincts to find the Caribou herds her people depend on. Ages 4-10.

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A howling good story!
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The Newest Addition to the Julie Books Makes Me Growl

Nutik, the Wolf Pup
Jean Craighead George
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Release Date: 2001-01-09

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When a little Eskimo boy named Amaroq is given a sickly wolf pup to nurse back to health, his sister Julie warns him, "Don't fall in love, Amaroq, or your heart will break when the wolves come and take him away." But it's too late. One look in the pup's golden eyes and Amaroq is smitten. Soon enough, Nutik the wolf has grown fat and well, and he and Amaroq are never apart. When the wolf pack comes back to reclaim their cub, Amaroq must be strong enough to let him go. Now can the two friends be strong enough to remain apart?

Do some of these names sound familiar? They should. First told in the novel, Julie's Wolf Pack, this adventure is a young reader's picture-book introduction to Jean Craighead George's classic trilogy for older children, The Epic Adventures of Julie and Her Wolves, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves. George crafts an exquisite story for a new generation of readers sprung from those who grew up with many of her more than 80 outstanding children's books. Acclaimed illustrator Ted Rand traveled to the Arctic tundra to research the pictures for this book; the result is splendidly evocative of the beauty and desolation of Alaska, both in daylight (which lasts for three months in the summer) and at night. (Ages 4 to 8) --Emilie Coulter

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In an Eskimo village at the top of the world lived a little boy whose name was Amaroq. Named for the great wolf leader who saved the life of his big sister, Julie, Amaroq loved wolves as much as his big sister did.

One day Julie brings home a sickly wolf pup named Nutik for Amaroq to feed and tend. "Don't fall in love with Nutik," Julie warns, "or your heart will break when the wolves come to take their pup home." Amaroq feeds and cares for Nutik, and soon the fuzzy little pup is romping and playing and following Amaroq everywhere. Amaroq and Nutik become best friends, but soon it's time for Nutik to rejoin his wolf family. Will Amaroq be strong like the great wolf leader he was named after and be able to let Nutik go?

In this adventure-first told in Julie's Wolf Pack, sequel to the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George brings the Arctic world of Julie and her family to a picturebook audience.

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A howling good story!.......2001-10-31

In an Eskimo village at the top of the world lives a little boy whose name is Amaroq, so named for the great wolf leader who saved the life of his big sister, Julie. One day Julie brings home a sickly wolf pup named Nutik.

When his big sister puts Nutik into Amaroq's arms, she tells her little brother to feed & tend the pup. She also warns her brother not to fall in love with Nutik as she has promised the wolf pack that when both pups are fat & well, they will be returned.

Amaroq says he is strong & sets about feeding the bedraggled pup. Together through a magical summer, pup & boy, frolic in the tundra of the land of the midnight sun.

When, at last, the sun does set & the long dark winter comes upon them & Nutik is strong & healthy, the wolf pack comes to the edge of Amaroq's village, calling Nutik home. Amaroq is not as strong as he once thought, especially when his beloved pup takes him out into the star filled night to meet his wolf family.

This is a poignant & magical look at the love between a boy & a wolf pup, at the rightness of our actions, the pain of duty & the rewards of responsibility.

Lovely, lovely read!

Marvelous!.......2001-03-15

When she was younger and lost and starving, Julie was saved by wolves who shared their food and kept her safe and warm. Now many years later, Julie brings her brother, Amoraq, a small sickly wolfpup to feed and take care of. She tells him, "When he is fat and well, the wolves will come and get him." Amoraq looks into the golden eyes of the pup, Nutik, and it's love at first sight. "Don't fall in love, Amoraq", Julie warns him, "be strong." As time goes by and the three months of summer light begins to fade, Nutik becomes fat and healthy and soon the wolves call for him. At first, Amoraq takes Nutik and runs away. But soon, the wolves call again and Nutik knows it's time to go home where he belongs..... Jean Craighead George has written a memorable picture book introduction to her Julie and the Wolves books, a whole new generation will treasure. Her text, full of imagery and magic will capture your youngster's heart and Ted Rand's expressive illustrations of the Alaskan tundra will mesmerize children with their vivid beauty. Together, they've authored a special book of love, friendship and respect your kids will want to read again and again. And, just like her Julie books, Nutik the Wolf Pup is sure to become a classic in the years ahead.

The Newest Addition to the Julie Books Makes Me Growl.......2001-01-13

First of all, I must say I was a bit disappointed when I got this book. I am a huge Jean Craighead George fan, but I am not so fond of the illustrations. I am much more fond of John Schoenherr and Wendell Minor, who illustrated the other Julie books. Also I don't think the same beautiful effect of the Julie novels is present in this young children's story. But overall, it's a fine addition to the Julie trilogy. Julie's story begins, of course, in the magnificent Newbery-Award winning JULIE OF THE WOLVES. Next comes the thought-provoking sequel, JULIE, and then, my personal favorite because of my love of wolves, JULIE'S WOLF PACK. It is in the latter that Nutik, the wolf pup, and his sister Uqaq are born and raised by Julie and her little brother, Amaroq (the main character in this story). The wolves try to take Nutik back, but Amaroq resists them. Nutik belongs to a human pack now, just as, for a long time, Julie, the human, belonged to a wolf pack. Or does he? I think one of the main reasons I actually appreciated this somewhat disappointing book was because it helps to extinguish cruel and misleading thoughts about wolves. Young children should grow up reading books like this instead of LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD, and older kids should read books like JULIE OF THE WOLVES, JULIE, and JULIE'S WOLF PACK. Whichever one of Ms. George's eighty or so books one reads, one always comes away with a feeling of a deeper respect and love for our natural world.

An Eskimo Family (Families Around the World Series)

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An Eskimo Family (Families Around the World Series)
Bryan Alexander , and Cherry Alexander
Manufacturer: Lerner Publishing Group
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