The Raven and the Loon
- Publisher
- Inhabit Media
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2020
- Category
- Retellings, Animal Stories, Inuit, Humorous Stories
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781772272703
- Publish Date
- Mar 2020
- List Price
- $12.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781772270419
- Publish Date
- Apr 2014
- List Price
- $9.99
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781927095508
- Publish Date
- Oct 2013
- List Price
- $16.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 3 to 5
- Grade: p to k
- Reading age: 3 to 5
Description
Selected for CCBC Annual Best-of-the-Year Book List 2014!
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 expected—led to Raven and Loon acquiring their now-familiar coats.
"Folklore invitingly told and presented for a young audience." - Kirkus Reviews
"With its significant potential for generating discussion, this is a perfect book for school and library settings." - Quill & Quire
About the authors
Of Inuit-Cree ancestry, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley was born in a tent on northernmost Baffin Island. She learned Inuit survival lore from her father, surviving residential school and attending university. In 2012, she was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for numerous cultural writings. Of Scottish-Mohawk ancestry, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley was born in southern Ontario, learning woodcraft and stories from his father. Training as an artist, then writer, Sean’s sci-fi work won 2nd place at the California-based Writers of the Future contest, published by Galaxy Press. Rachel and Sean have worked for decades as Arctic researchers and consultants. In writing together, they have published 10 successful books and many shorter works, celebrating the history and uniqueness of Arctic shamanism, cosmology, and cosmogony. Their novel, Skraelings: Clashes in the Old Arctic, was a Governor General Awards Finalist and First Prize Burt Award winner.
Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley's profile page
Of Inuit-Cree ancestry, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley was born in a tent on northernmost Baffin Island. She learned Inuit survival lore from her father, surviving residential school and attending university. In 2012, she was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for numerous cultural writings. Of Scottish-Mohawk ancestry, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley was born in southern Ontario, learning woodcraft and stories from his father. Training as an artist, then writer, Sean’s sci-fi work won 2nd place at the California-based Writers of the Future contest, published by Galaxy Press. Rachel and Sean have worked for decades as Arctic researchers and consultants. In writing together, they have published 10 successful books and many shorter works, celebrating the history and uniqueness of Arctic shamanism, cosmology, and cosmogony. Their novel, Skraelings: Clashes in the Old Arctic, was a Governor General Awards Finalist and First Prize Burt Award winner.
Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley's profile page
Kim Smith is the New York Times bestselling illustrator of over thirty picture books, including her first authored and illustrated book, Boxitects. Other books she has illustrated include the Builder Brothers picture book series by Drew and Jonathan Scott; the PopClassics picture book adaptations of popular films including Back to the Future, Home Alone, and Elf; and the Ice Chips chapter book series by Roy and Kerry MacGregor. In addition to illustrating picture books, Kim has also worked on children’s games, puzzles, animation, 3D displays, posters, and magazines. When she’s not busy illustrating, Kim spends most of her time exploring and painting in the great outdoors. She lives in Calgary, Canada. Find out more at KimIllustration.com.
Awards
- Short-listed, CCBC Annual Best-of-the-Year List of Books for Children
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