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Kisimi taimaippaktut angirrarijarani / Arnakuluk Vuriisan ; titiraujaqtuq, Ipiksaut Vuriisan ; inuktituulirijuq, Jiin Kusugaq = Only in my hometown / Angnakuluk Friesen ; pictures by Ippiksaut Friesen ; translated by Jean Kusugak.
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Title:Kisimi taimaippaktut angirrarijarani / Arnakuluk Vuriisan ; titiraujaqtuq, Ipiksaut Vuriisan ; inuktituulirijuq, Jiin Kusugaq = Only in my hometown / Angnakuluk Friesen ; pictures by Ippiksaut Friesen ; translated by Jean Kusugak.
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Variant Title:Only in my hometown
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Author/Creator:Friesen, Angnakuluk, author.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Friesen, Ippiksaut, illustrator.
Kusugak, Jean, translator.
Friesen, Angnakuluk. Only in my hometown.
Friesen, Angnakuluk. Only in my hometown. Inuktitut.
Xwi7xwa Collection.
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Published/Created:Toronto ; Berkeley : Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press, 2017.
©2017
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Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: YUA F752 K57 2017
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects: Inuit--Culture--Nunavut
Inuit--Social life and customs--Nunavut
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Library of Congress Subjects:Inuit--Juvenile fiction.
Sisters--Juvenile fiction.
Inuit families--Juvenile fiction.
Communities--Juvenile fiction.
Auroras--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Nunavut--Juvenile fiction.
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Subject(s): Inuktitut language materials--Bilingual.
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Genre/Form:Children's books
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Description:1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 25 cm
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Summary:The northern lights shine, women gather to eat raw caribou meat and everyone could be family in this ode to small-town life in Nunavut, written in English and Inuktitut. Sisters Angnakuluk Friesen and Ippiksaut Friesen collaborate on this story about what it's like to grow up in an Inuit community in Nunavut. Every line about the hometown in this book will have readers thinking about what makes their own hometowns unique. With strong social studies curriculum connections, Only in My Hometown introduces young readers to life in the Canadian North, as well as the Inuit language and culture. Angnakuluk's simple text, translated into Inuktitut and written out in syllabics and transliterated roman characters, is complemented by Ippiksaut's warm paintings of their shared hometown.
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Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
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Notes:Text in Inuktitut (romanized and syllabic characters) and English.
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ISBN:9781554988839 (hardcover)
1554988837