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    Grandmother Ptarmigan
    Grandmother Ptarmigan
    Grandmother Ptarmigan
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    Grandmother Ptarmigan

    By Qaunaq Mikkigak, Joanne Schwartz and Qin Leng

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    Selected for the Canadian Children's Book Centre’s Best Books for Kids & Teens!

    It's bedtime for baby ptarmigan, but he will not go to sleep. So his grandmother decides to tell him a bedtime story that he will never forget. With delightful illustrations by Qin Leng, this book is a simple, nursery rhyme inspired rendition of a traditional Inuit origin tale. Published for the first time as a board book under the Inhabit Junior imprint, this book is perfect for the smallest of hands.

    "A brief, illuminating glimpse into Inuit storytelling." - Kirkus Reviews

    "Grandmother Ptarmigan deserves a place with Aesop’s fables and fables of all types." - CM Magazine

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInhabit Media
    Release dateApr 1, 2014
    ISBN9781772270440
    Grandmother Ptarmigan
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    Qaunaq Mikkigak

    Qaunaq Mikkigak is an elder, artist, and throat singer from Cape Dorset, Nunavut. She was born in 1932 in the Cape Dorset area and grew up on the land in a traditional Inuit community. She was featured in the books Inuit Women Artists: Voices from Cape Dorset and Cape Dorset Sculpture. She has collaborated with author Joanne Schwartz on picture book versions of two traditional Inuit tales, The Legend of the Fog and Grandmother Ptarmigan. She is well known locally for her storytelling, and her throat singing has been featured on several recordings.

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