Akilak’s Adventure by D. Kigjugalik Webster
Kigjugalik Webster, Deborah. Akilak’s Adventure. Inhabit Media, 2016.This is a first children’s book from Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, who grew up in Baker Lake, Nunavut. It is a story of a little Inuit girl navigating the tundra by herself to reach her uncle’s camp. As the child walks, she is joined...
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ftunivalbertaojs:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/28879 2023-05-15T15:35:54+02:00 Akilak’s Adventure by D. Kigjugalik Webster Campbell, Sandy 2017-01-29 http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/deakinreview/article/view/28879 https://doi.org/10.20361/G2Q02X en eng University of Alberta Libraries Copyright (c) 2017 The Deakin Review of Children's Literature The Deakin Review of Children's Literature; Vol 6, No 3 (2017) 1927-1484 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2017 ftunivalbertaojs https://doi.org/10.20361/G2Q02X 2017-02-05T15:57:22Z Kigjugalik Webster, Deborah. Akilak’s Adventure. Inhabit Media, 2016.This is a first children’s book from Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, who grew up in Baker Lake, Nunavut. It is a story of a little Inuit girl navigating the tundra by herself to reach her uncle’s camp. As the child walks, she is joined by a caribou, who mysteriously knows her grandmother’s saying, “Your destination did not run away, you will reach it soon.” The conversation between the two is about people changing into animals, but Akilak in the end decides to remain a person. The story is deceptively simple. On the surface, children will understand it as a little girl’s adventure. However, it encompasses several important aspects of Inuit culture: the relationship between grandparent and child, the importance of extended family support, the prominence of animals and the stories of people taking the shape of animals, the distance of travel across the tundra and the related concept of taulittuq or the sense of moving but not getting closer to your destination.Charlene Chua’s artwork is charming. Each two pages are an image with text overprinted on one page, often shaped to fit around parts of the image. The images are simple and cartoon-like, but good representations of the tundra and its creatures. While this is mainly a picture book with an intended audience of children ages 5 to 7, the reading level is upper elementary, so younger children will definitely need an adult to read it to them.Akilak’s Adventure would be an excellent addition to public libraries and elementary school libraries.Highly Recommended: 4 stars out of 4Reviewer: Sandy CampbellSandy is a Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Alberta, who has written hundreds of book reviews across many disciplines. Sandy thinks that sharing books with children is one of the greatest gifts anyone can give. Article in Journal/Newspaper Baker Lake inuit Nunavut Tundra University of Alberta: Journal Hosting Nunavut The Deakin Review of Children's Literature 6 3 |
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Kigjugalik Webster, Deborah. Akilak’s Adventure. Inhabit Media, 2016.This is a first children’s book from Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, who grew up in Baker Lake, Nunavut. It is a story of a little Inuit girl navigating the tundra by herself to reach her uncle’s camp. As the child walks, she is joined by a caribou, who mysteriously knows her grandmother’s saying, “Your destination did not run away, you will reach it soon.” The conversation between the two is about people changing into animals, but Akilak in the end decides to remain a person. The story is deceptively simple. On the surface, children will understand it as a little girl’s adventure. However, it encompasses several important aspects of Inuit culture: the relationship between grandparent and child, the importance of extended family support, the prominence of animals and the stories of people taking the shape of animals, the distance of travel across the tundra and the related concept of taulittuq or the sense of moving but not getting closer to your destination.Charlene Chua’s artwork is charming. Each two pages are an image with text overprinted on one page, often shaped to fit around parts of the image. The images are simple and cartoon-like, but good representations of the tundra and its creatures. While this is mainly a picture book with an intended audience of children ages 5 to 7, the reading level is upper elementary, so younger children will definitely need an adult to read it to them.Akilak’s Adventure would be an excellent addition to public libraries and elementary school libraries.Highly Recommended: 4 stars out of 4Reviewer: Sandy CampbellSandy is a Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Alberta, who has written hundreds of book reviews across many disciplines. Sandy thinks that sharing books with children is one of the greatest gifts anyone can give. |
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