http://www.papertigers.org/wordpress/books-at-bedtime-arctic-stories/ Wed, 22 May 2013 12:44:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.papertigers.org/wordpress/books-at-bedtime-arctic-stories/#comment-810 Nadine C. Fabbi on picture books to introduce “the North, the Inuit and Nunavut” Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:23:19 +0000 http://www.papertigers.org/wordpress/?p=4134#comment-810 [...] the whole article here. The set includes our current selection for The Tiger’s Bookshelf, Arctic Stories by Michael Kusugak and illustrated by Vladyana Langer Krykorka (Annick, 1998); and I was [...]

]]> http://www.papertigers.org/wordpress/books-at-bedtime-arctic-stories/#comment-809 Janet Brown Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:07 +0000 http://www.papertigers.org/wordpress/?p=4134#comment-809 When I was a teenager in Alaska, one of my friends was from Savoonga on St. Lawrence Island, so close to Siberia that Alaskan Inupiaq people would visit relatives across the Being Strait by traveling across in skin boats. This did not please the cold war governments and the village rumors were that at night frogmen, wearing wetsuits and oxygen masks, came out of the frigid Arctic water to roam about examining everything they could find. True or not, the story did frighten the children…

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