Two ringed seals are sunning themselves on the sea ice during the long spring day. Ten lemmings scurry among the dwarf willows. A herd of one hundred caribou migrates in spring. These pages of counting are followed with 4 pages of tales about the Arctic world of Michael Kusugak and his family watching the animals we'd just counted. These are illustrated with delightful black and white ink drawings.
Lemmings are little, furry animals with short, skinny, furry tails.
Inninajuk caught one and put it in a cage. It had three little ones. The little lemmings had no fur when they were born. We let them go when they could walk. They were smelly.