Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley

In the time before animals were as they are today, Raven and Loon were both white. Their feathers had no colour at all. Raven spent his days swooping through the sky trying to fight off his incessant boredom, while loon spent her days in her iglu working away on her sewing. One day, too bored to even fly, Raven visited Loon and suggested a sewing game that would give their feathers some much-needed colour. The results - not at all what the two birds...

This completely revised and reedited edition, originally published as Qanuq Pinngurnirmata, shares eight classic Inuit creation stories from the Baffin region. These treasured tales have been revised to increase readability for young readers ages 6-8, while new material provides even more contextual information for these important creation myths. New illustrations accompany the new textual material. This edition is as accessible and enjoyable as...

This lively retelling of the traditional pan-Arctic story reveals how the Raven and the Loon came to have their now-familiar coats after an exciting sewing game in Loon's iglu.

When Raven comes across Walrus expertly diving for clams, he quickly becomes jealous of Walrus's great clam-hunting skills.