Akilak's Adventures

Publisher's Description (Inhabit Media): 
When Akilak must travel a great distance to another camp to gather food, she thinks she will never be able to make it. With a little help from her grandmother's spirit, and her own imagination to keep her entertained, Akilak manages to turn a long journey into an adventure. Even though she at first feels that she will never be able to reach her destination, she keeps her grandmother's assurance that her "destination is not running away; it will be reached eventually" in mind and ends up enjoying the journey that at first seemed so daunting.

Author Biography (Strong Nations): 
Deborah Kigjugalik Webster grew up in Baker Lake, Nunavut, where she loved to learn about her Inuit culture and heritage. She has a degree in Anthropology from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, and works as an Inuit heritage researcher and author. The lack of published children’s literature featuring Inuit content compelled Deborah to write "Akilak’s Adventure" for her daughters, Sonja Akilak and Nicole Amaruq. Reading and making up stories with her daughters when they were young was a magical time in Deborah’s life, and she took inspiration from their vivid imaginations and sense of wonderment and excitement.

Resource format: Picturebook

Age recommendation: Grade 4 - 9

Keywords: Inuit girl, caribou, spirit, tundra, Inuit, Inuit culture, kinship, adoption, nomadic, Arctic, grandmother, hunting, uncle, journey, walk, food, dry meat, carinou, lichen, migration, adventure, lake, stories, trout, wolf, imagination, companion, cousin, tualittuq

Year of publication: 2016

Publisher information: Inhabit Media