Arctic Giants

Informationen zum Autor Neil Christopher is an educator, author, and filmmaker. He first moved to the North many years ago to help start a high school program in Resolute Bay, Nunavut. It was those students who first introduced Neil to the mythical inhabitants from Inuit traditional stories. Together with his colleague, Louise Flaherty, and his brother, Danny Christopher, Neil started a small publishing company in Nunavut called Inhabit Media Inc., and has since been working to promote Northern stories and authors. Eva Widermann is a graduate of the graphic and design program at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany. She worked as a graphic designer for many years before she decided to pursue her long-term dream of becoming a freelance illustrator and concept artist. Her art is deeply influenced by an unusual combination of Franco-Belgian comics, manga, and anime. Klappentext Experience the exciting world of arctic giants through traditional tales from around Nunavut. Zusammenfassung Experience the exciting world of arctic giants through traditional tales from around Nunavut. Based on elder interviews from more than one hundred years ago, these stories reveal the fearsome giants that once stalked the arctic. From enormous beings strong enough to pick up a walrus with one hand, to massive creatures that towered over mountains and could carry humans on the lace of one boot, these Inuktitut language stories will introduce readers to a vast array of arctic giants.

Product details

• Authors: Neil Christopher, Neil/ Kalluak Christopher, Eva Widermann
• Assisted by: Eva Widermann (Illustration)
• Publisher: External catalogues_US
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2011
• EAN: 9781926569093
• ISBN: 978-1-926569-09-3
• No. of pages: 170
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 267 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs > Fairytales and sagas; Nunavut, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fantasy / General, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Monsters, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / People & Places / Polar Regions