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Raquel Rivera - Tuk and the Whale, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

Tuk and the Whale

Av Raquel Rivera

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Told by a young Inuit boy, this story imagines what might have happened if the people of a Baffin Island winter camp had encountered European whalers.This story is set on the eastern coast of Baffin Island in the early decades of the 1600s. Told from the point of view of a young Inuit boy, Tuk, it imagines what might have happened if the people of Tuk's Baffin Island winter camp had encountered European whalers, blown far north from their usual whaling route. Both the Inuit hunters and the whalers prize the bowhead whale, but for very different reasons. Together, they set out on a hunt, though they are all on new and uncertain ground.Scrupulously researched, this beautifully told story will inspire extremely topical discussion about communication between two groups of people with entirely different world views; and about a productive partnership that also foreshadows serious problems to come.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2008-05-15
  • Mått: 128 x 190 x 7 mm
  • Vikt: 90 g
  • Ålder: 6-9
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Läsålder: 6-9
  • Antal sidor: 96
  • Förlag: Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
  • Illustratör: Mary Jane Gerber
  • ISBN: 9780888998910
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for QWF Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature 2008 (Canada)
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RAQUEL RIVERA is a writer and performer. Among many accolades for her publications, Raquel has won the Quebec Writers’ Federation Prize for Children’s and YA Literature for her novels Yipee’s Gold Mountain and Orphan Ahwak, and her novel Tuk and the Whale was shortlisted for the prize. Her book Arctic Adventures: Tales from the Lives of Inuit Artists, illustrated by Jirina Marton, was named a USBBY Outstanding International Book. Raquel lives in Montreal, Quebec.Mary Jane Gerber has illustrated several books for children. She lives in Orangeville, Ontario.

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“Through the eyes and voice of Tuk, a young Inuit boy, readers see, hear and feel the excitement and apprehension that the lost whalers' arrival engenders...[a] simple, elegant, eloquent tale...Mary Jane Gerber's delightful pen-and-ink drawings capture moments large and small.” — Globe and Mail

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