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Roy Gooselearned 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 McCluskeyis 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 Kimis a Toronto-based illustrator, art educator, and artist, originally from South Korea. Her work specializes in merging fine sketching and painting techniques to produce three-dimensional dioramas. Kim is a graduate of York University and has illustrated several children's picture books, includingYou Are Stardust,Is This Panama?, andWild Ideas.
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 [T]his story is distinctly Inuit while remaining understandable to everyone which makes it extremely useful in classrooms and libraries... I highly recommend this book given how the illustrations and story combine to create a book that is pleasing to readers of many ages.--The Deakin Review of Children's Literature
