Northern Lights: The Soccer Trails

by Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak

Book Overview

This story explores the Inuit belief that the Northern Lights are the souls of the dead, playing soccer in the sky. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550373382
• ISBN13: 9781550373387
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Annick Press
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.2" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Northern Lights: the Soccer Trails

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.