Vanishing Cultures: Frozen Land

By Jan Reynolds

Book Overview

In this series of seven books, photojournalist Jan Reynolds documents the distinctive cultures and climates of indigenous peoples.

Kenalogak, a young Inuit girl, is helping her father build an igloo. She and her family sleep in this ice home while they are hunting caribou, an animal very important to her people.

While Father is hunting and Mother is sewing coats of caribou skin, Kenalogak and her brother play games and go ice fishing. Inside the igloo at night Grandmother and Grandfather lead the family in songs and dances. Kenalogak enjoys this time with her family, away from the village, learning the traditional ways of her people and their land.

Check out the other titles in this series:

VANISHING CULTURES: AMAZON BASIN - VANISHING CULTURES: DOWN UNDER - VANISHING CULTURES: FAR NORTH - VANISHING CULTURES: FROZEN LAND - VANISHING CULTURES: HIMALAYA - VANISHING CULTURES: MONGOLIA - VANISHING CULTURES: SAHARA

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1600601286
• ISBN13: 9781600601286
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Lee & Low Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 10.8" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 5 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 6

Customer Reviews

Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children

Economic development, technological growth, and environmental degradation have affected the lives of all people on this planet. Yet modernization has changed the way of life more slowly across generations for some people. In this outstanding book series, Jan Reynolds offers readers a fascinating glimpse into several such societies and describes how families meet their subsistence needs, practice their beliefs, interact in their communities, and live in the elements. To effectively communicate some fairly sophisticated lessons to younger children, the clear narratives each focus on a particular family, and the vivid photographs capture a wealth of interesting information about their activities, clothes, food, and surroundings. Seeing a young aborigines boy pulling an enormous carpet snake out of a log and reading about how the Inuit people survived on a diet consisting only of caribou meat and fat are just a few of the unique experiences that reading this book series will entail. The series has seven books. This book, Frozen Land, focuses on the Inuit caribou hunters in the Northwest Territories of Canada.