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edition:Hardcover
also available: Paperback Paperback Audiobook
category: Children's Fiction
published: Oct 2017
ISBN:9781772271393
publisher: Inhabit Media

Sukaq and the Raven

by Roy Goose & Kerry McCluskey, illustrated by Soyeon Kim

tagged: bedtime & dreams, native american, birds, polar regions
Description

Sukaq loves to drift off to sleep listening to his mother tell him stories. His favourite story is the tale of how a raven created the world. But this time, as his mother begins to tell the story and his eyelids become heavy, he is suddenly whisked away on the wings of the raven to ride along as the entire world is formed! This traditional legend from Inuit storyteller Roy Goose is brought to life through co-author Kerry McCluskey's jubilant retelling.

About the Authors

Roy Goose learned many of the legends he knows from his great-grandmother, Naimee Mammayuk, who left Alaska and came to Canada around 1910 with the Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Steffansson. Roy passed his legends on to his children to teach them important life lessons and morals.


Kerry McCluskey is a long-term resident of Iqaluit, Nunavut and has no plans to return to southern Canada. Kerry and her son River like spending time outdoors, at the rink, and in the kitchen.


SOYEON KIM is a Toronto-based, Korean-born artist who specializes in work that merges real-world materials and fine sketching and painting techniques to produce three-dimensional pieces. She is a graduate of the Visual Arts program at York University in Toronto.
Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
Age:
6 to 8
Grade:
1 to 3
Reading age:
6 to 8
Awards
  • Commended, White Raven International Youth Library
Editorial Review

“By telling an origin story with a little boy dreaming of accompanying the giant raven as it creates the universe brings the story from legend to something more personal and even bigger.”—CanLit for Little Canadians

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