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About the Book

It was a Monday in February. Fifth-grader Bruce Turner squirmed in his seat. It was -20 degrees outside and a blizzard was burying streets and driving the snow against doorways. There had been no outdoor recess today. Bruce was bored. He wanted to be outside where he spent hours year-round, following animal tracks, observing snow geese during nesting season, finding tuttu antlers on the tundra, watching gulls and ravens soar overhead in the wind, and jigging for fish under the river ice. Bruce thought his village, Nuiqsut, was the best place in the world because he could do all the things he loved right here. But for now, Bruce was inside in the classroom getting ready for a visit by an elder, George Reilly, who would tell ancient stories called unipkaat about tuttut. A few minutes later, Shirley, Bruce's teacher, welcomed George to the classroom. So begins the story of Bruce Bruce Turner, a fifth grader living in the Inuit village Nuiqsut, Alaska. His class is learning from village elders about the importance of Caribou in their culture and how though they are hunted. The animals must be respected if they are to return every year. Afterwards Bruce joins his father on a hunt, and they return with a caribou. Bruce's parents and aaka (grandmother) then show Bruce how the caribou is put to use in many ways, from food, to clothing, to using its sinew to develop sewing thread. Later that summer, Bruce joins local scientists on the annual caribou count, where he learns more about caribou behavior and migration.
About the Author: Patricia Partnow is an anthropologist and educator from Alaska who has written culture-based curriculum for museums, cultural organizations, and school districts for decades. She is the author of a number of children's books that combine Alaska Native cultures and history with Western science and social studies. She has two grown children and two young grandchildren who serve as both imagined audience and models for her books. Diana Magnuson has illustrated over 100 trade, mass market, and educational children's books -- many are Native American stories. Early in her career, she illustrated ads, taught art at a mission school in Tanzania, East Africa; pre-school and Headstart in California and fifth grade in Chicago. As an associate professor, she taught Drawing and Illustration at Northern Michigan University, and in a local residential treatment home, magical realism portrait art to at-risk teens. As a member of the Sensoria Artists Collective, she currently exhibits in shows in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781630763800
  • Publisher: Muddy Boots
  • Publisher Imprint: Muddy Boots
  • Height: 259 mm
  • No of Pages: 40
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 185 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1630763802
  • Publisher Date: 15 May 2020
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 412 gr


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