Why a Booktrail?
Destination: Nunavut
Meet Alego, a young Inuit girl who lives in Cape Dorset, Nunavut.
Alego
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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