Tiktala

By Margaret Shaw-Mackinnon

Book Overview

Tiktala looked out at the black churning waters. She dreaded the sea, but she was more afraid of being left alone. She closed her eyes and heaved forward. "I am Tiktala," she cried, as she entered the ocean. Tiktala looked down at what should have been her mittens and saw silver-grey fur, black claws-flippers. She tried to get away, but the flippers-her flippers-scratched and scrambled on the rock. Tiktala was a harp seal. "Spirit!" her cry rang out. "Change me back!" But no spirit answered.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823412210
• ISBN13: 9780823412211
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Holiday House
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Great Way to get a feel for Life in the Icey Wilderness

The colors in this Eskimo village in the Far North are warm, rich and soothing. They give you the impression of a soft darkness, illuminated by the Aurora Borealus. Tiktala, a young girl who expresses a desire to be a great sculptor of soapstone, goes on a quest to find her spirit guide. She is transformed by the spirits into a Harp Seal and learns what it is like to live as one, in the beautiful and dangerous wild.