The girl who dreamed only geese, and other tales of the Far North
By: told by Howard Norman ; illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon.
Contributors: Dillon, Leo, ill.; Dillon, Diane, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Inuit -- Folklore; Tales -- Arctic regions; Inuit -- Folklore; Eskimos -- Folklore; Folklore -- Arctic regions
Description: A collection of illustrated Eskimo folktales. In The Man Who Married a Seagull, a lady seagull is transformed into a human so she can marry one, The Wolverine Secret is on a raven who stole the sun and the moon, while in the title story a food shortage threatens a village when a girl stops dreaming of geese, because geese only arrive if she dreams of them. Based on decades of research and extended collaboration with Inuit storytellers, award-winning author Howard Norman's masterful retellings of ten Inuit tales invite readers on a unique story--journey from Siberia and Alaska to the Canadian Arctic and Greenland. Dramatic illustrations inspired by stonecut art of the Inuit people capture the beauty and mystery of these stories as they carry us--sometimes laughing, sometimes crying--from village to village over taiga, tundra, snow plains, and the iceberg-filled sea.
Notes: "Gulliver books."
Table of contents: title: The day puffins netted Hid-Well; title: Noah hunts a wooly mammoth; title: Why the rude visitor was flung by walrus; title: Uteritsoq and the duckbill dolls; title: The wolverine's secret; title: The girl who watched in the nighttime; title: The man who married a seagull; title: Home among the giants; title: How the narwhal got its tusk; title: The girl who dreamed only geese.