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The girl who dreamed only geese, and other tales of the Far North / told by Howard Norman ; illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon

Catalog Data

Author:
Norman, Howard A  Search this
Dillon, Leo  Search this
Dillon, Diane  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 147 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm
Type:
Folklore
Place:
Arctic regions
Date:
1997
C1997
Notes:
"Gulliver books."
Contents:
The day puffins netted Hid-Well -- Noah hunts a wooly mammoth -- Why the rude visitor was flung by walrus -- Uteritsoq and the duckbill dolls -- The wolverine's secret -- The girl who watched in the nighttime -- The man who married a seagull -- Home among the giants -- How the narwhal got its tusk -- The girl who dreamed only geese
Summary:
A collection of illustrated Eskimo folktales. In The Man Who Married a Seagull, a lady seagull is transformed into a human so she can marry one, The Wolverine Secret is on a raven who stole the sun and the moon, while in the title story a food shortage threatens a village when a girl stops dreaming of geese, because geese only arrive if she dreams of them.
Topic:
Inuit  Search this
Tales  Search this
Eskimos  Search this
Folklore  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_773638