Iglarnaqtut!
Things that make us laugh!
- Publisher
- Inhabit Media
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2014
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781927095485
- Publish Date
- Feb 2014
- List Price
- $10.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 5 to 7
- Grade: k to 2
- Reading age: 6 to 8
Description
This book is a collection of personal stories, anecdotes, and embarrassing encounters shared by Nunavummiut. This is a fun and unique glimpse at life in Arctic communities and on the land. All the stories in this book were originally written in Inuktitut (not translated from English or French), and will be a delight to read for any and all readers that are fluent in Inuktitut.
About the authors
Jeela Palluq-Cloutier’s passion is to promote high quality standards of Inuktut in spelling, grammar, and usage. She obtained her Bachelor of Education in 1994 (McGill University) and Master of Education, with thesis, in 2014 (Prince Edward Island University). As a teacher, she taught Inuktut in elementary and high schools in Iqaluit and Igloolik, including post-secondary programs in Ottawa (Nunavut Sivuniksavut and Carleton University). She also worked for Pirurvik Centre, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, and Inuit Uqausinngik Taiguusiliuqtiit, where she led work on documenting traditional and modern terminology, developing language training programs and materials, localizing modern technology interfaces, and establishing reference materials on standard orthography, grammar, and affixes. She further contributes to the development of literature for children and adults in Inuktut through Inhabit Media/Education, including authoring her own children’s books to promote naming practices and family terms.
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Qin Leng was born in Shanghai, China. At the age of five, she moved with her family to Bordeaux, France, where she spent the next four years. Soon after, she moved to Montreal, where she spent the rest of her childhood. Having been born in Asia but raised in the West, she uses both cultures as her source of inspiration. Looking at her illustrations, one can see the presence of both East and West.Qin Leng comes from a family of artists, where the visual senses have always been of the utmost importance. She grew up watching her father work with acrylics, pastel, and ink. Father and daughter often spent their days drawing side by side. Drawing first started as a hobby, but soon became a way of expression.Despite her many years of study to become a biologist, Qin decided at the age of 20 to follow the same path as her father and enrolled in the School of Cinema to study Film Animation at Concordia University. She has produced animated shorts, which were nominated in various nationa
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