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  • Location: Nunavut, Cap Dorset, Baffin Island

Alego

Alego

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Destination: Nunavut

Meet Alego, a young Inuit girl who lives in Cape Dorset, Nunavut.

  • ISBN: 978-0888999436
  • Genre: Childrens

What you need to know before your trail

It’s almost time for supper, and Alego goes with her grandmother to the shore to collect clams. Along the way, the girl discovers tide pools brimming with life — a bright orange starfish, a creepy crawly ugjurnaq, sea snails, and a sculpin.

 

Travel Guide

The author and artist is well known on the Cape Breton Inuit art scene, and has illustrated much of her own life and experiences in this book.

It’s in both Inuktitut and English, the book includes an illustrated glossary of the sea creatures in the story as well as a map of Baffin Island.

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