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In early winter, when smooth ice forms over the lakes and seas of the Arctic, the Inuit people play soccer by starlight using a ball of stuffed caribou hide. According to legend, the souls of dead people also love to play soccer, using a huge frozen walrus head. They can be seen running across the sky in the aurora borealis, the northern lights, which in Inuktituk are called Aqsalijaat or Aqsarniit--Soccer Trails. Michael Kusugak won the 1994 Ruth Schwartz Award for Northern Lights: The Soccer Trails, which recounts this uplifting myth from the perspective of Kataujaq, a little girl whose adored and adoring mother dies during a tuberculosis epidemic.
Though aimed at young children, Kusugak's discussion of death and grieving comes completely unvarnished. "It was such a long time ago," Kusugak writes. "Now Kataujaq was a big girl; well, almost a big girl. But she still missed her mother a lot.... Sometimes, when she was alone, Kataujaq cried. Sometimes, when she went to bed at night and thoughts came, she cried a lot." With time, though, after her grandmother teaches her to find solace in the company of lost loved ones as they play soccer in the skies above her, Kataujaq learns to cope with her grief. This moving story is illustrated with delicate watercolours by Kusugak's regular collaborator Vladyana Krykorka. Their other children's titles include A Promise Is a Promise (with co-author Robert Munsch), Baseball Bats for Christmas, and Arctic Stories. (Ages 4 to 8) --Deirdre Hanna --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
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Northern Lights: the Soccer Trails,
By Kelly Gramlich (Alberta, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Northern Lights: The Soccer Trails (Paperback)
This award winning picture book is the story of Kataujaq, a young girl living in Canada's arctic who loses her mother to a sudden illness. Kauaujaq greatly misses her mother, and several years pass with her dealing with her grief on her own. It is explained that the people of her village like to play soccer out on the sea ice under the moonlight, using a caribou skin ball stuffed with moss and fur. Her grandmother tells her that the thousands of thin strands of light moving about in the northern lights above them are really the souls of those that have passed on, playing soccer with a huge, frozen walrus head. This greatly consoles Kataujak as she feels her mother's presence, and no longer feels as lonely.Full of Canadian content, the text and illustrations realistically convey many aspects of life in Canada's north. Highly recommended as a read-aloud for children in grades 1-2.
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Northern Lights: the Soccer Trails,
By Kelly Gramlich - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Northern Lights: The Soccer Trails (Paperback)
This award winning picture book is the story of Kataujaq, a young girl living in Canada's arctic who loses her mother to a sudden illness. Kauaujaq greatly misses her mother, and several years pass with her dealing with her grief on her own. It is explained that the people of her village like to play soccer out on the sea ice under the moonlight, using a caribou skin ball stuffed with moss and fur. Her grandmother tells her that the thousands of thin strands of light moving about in the northern lights above them are really the souls of those that have passed on, playing soccer with a huge, frozen walrus head. This greatly consoles Kataujak as she feels her mother's presence, and no longer feels as lonely.Full of Canadian content, the text and illustrations realistically convey many aspects of life in Canada's north. Highly recommended as a read-aloud for children in grades 1-2. |
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