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ALASKA: RAFTING THE TATSHENSHINI RIVER
For Kids
A Child's Alaska
• Claire Rudolph Murphy
• Charles Mason
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2012 •
PAPER
• 48 PAGES
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
A photographic overview of modern Alaska -- its wildlife, culture and people, written for an elementary school audience. The author writes about the changes of the seasons, the activities of children, and the indigenous peoples, who are broken down into the three groups of Aleut, Eskimo and Indian.
(ALA100, $10.95) |
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Alaska ABC Book
• Charlene Kreeger
• Shannon Cartwright
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2003 •
PAPER
• 32 PAGES
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
Q is for Qiviut (an Arctic musk ox). Young children (ages 4 to 8) will love this introduction to Alaska in an illustrated ABC format.
(ALA190, $9.95) |
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Alaska's 12 Days of Summer
• Pat Chamberlain-Calamar
• Shannon Cartwright
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2003 •
PAPER
• 32 PAGES
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
A lighthearted tribute to the wildlife of Alaska for youngsters, presented in illustrations and song lyrics set to the tune of "The 12 Days of Christmas.
(ALA191, $10.99) |
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Alaska's Three Bears
• Shelley Gill
• Shannon Cartwright
LITERATURE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 32 PAGES
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
This book, written for elementary school kids, teaches about bear ecology while telling the story of a black bear, a grizzly bear and a polar bear and their search for homes in the Alaskan wilderness.
(ALA189, $10.99) |
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Children of the Midnight Sun, Young Native Voices of Alaska
• Tricia Brown
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2007 •
PAPER
• 48 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
A profile of eight children, this book features vivid color photography and great information on daily life, customs and background of the Tlingit, Haida, Aleut and other cultures throughout Alaska. Aimed at children ages 9-12, it's a balanced presentation of modern challenges and traditional ways. Outstanding.
(ALA68, $11.95) |
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Kavik the Wolf Dog
• Walt Morey
• Peter Parnall
LITERATURE •
1997 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
A reprint of a classic children's novel about Kavik, a wolf-dog who is rescued by a loving boy after a plane crash in Alaska. Kavik, who has been reared as a champion sled-dog, is taken away from the boy and must make a perilous journey back to his home in Washington. He is determined to reunite with his savior, though, and makes a 2000 mile journey from Washington to Alaska, in search of the compassionate boy. Written for preteens.
(ALA99, $5.99) |
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Seabird
• Holling C. Holling
LITERATURE •
1978 •
PAPER
• 61 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
Whether you're at the coast or on the ocean, this children's book is excellently appropriate reading. An illustrated classic, it follows the history of American seafaring through the eyes (and adventures) of a carved ivory gull. Across four generations and around the world, by whaler, clipper, steamer and airplane, the gull witnesses life at sea. Ages 9-12.
(OCE79, $11.95) |
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Czar of Alaska, The Cross of Charlemagne
• Richard Trout
MYSTERY •
2005 •
HARD COVER
• 256 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
The fourth novel in the action-packed, fact-filled, techno-thriller MacGregor Family Adventure Series for young teens, set in Alaska.
(ALA232, $15.95) |
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I Heard the Owl Call My Name
• Margaret Craven
LITERATURE •
1993 •
PAPER
• 159 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
In this brief novel, a young vicar comes to live with the Kwakiutl Indians of the town of Kingcome in the Pacific Northwest. Written for teens but worthwhile for adults, it is a story of cultural sharing and the rediscovery of ancient Native American traditions.
(PNW90, $6.99) |
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Touching Spirit Bear
• Ben Mikaelsen
LITERATURE •
2002 •
PAPER
• 241 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
In the tradition of Gary Paulsen's "Hatchet" comes this novel of a delinquent boy's adventures on a remote Alaskan island. This young adult's novel follows the fate of Cole, an abused and abusive troubled teen who chooses a traditional First Nation punishment -- banishment -- over incarceration. But banishment isn't sufficient to reform Cole. For that, it takes an encounter with the white Spirit Bear of First Nation legends. Ages 12 and up.
(PNW127, $5.99) |
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Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
• Velma Wallis
LITERATURE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 175 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
A retelling of a traditional Athabaskan legend by Velma Wallis, an Athabaskan woman born and raised in Fort Yukon on the upper Yukon River. It's an inspiring tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe who must make their own way, alone, through the winter in the Alaskan wild. With line drawings throughout. Teens and adults are the appropriate audience.
(ALA64, $13.99) |
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A Northern Christmas
• Rockwell Kent
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1998 •
HARD COVER
• 40 PAGES
• FAMILY
First published in 1941, this charming book is adapted from Kent's Wilderness, A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska (ALA106, $17.95). It's Rockwell Kent's illustrated tale of Christmas with his nine-year-old son in remote Alaska. The woodcuts are delightful.
(ALA175, $12.95) |
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Call of the Wild, White Fang, and To Build a Fire
• Jack London
LITERATURE •
1993 •
PAPER
• 416 PAGES
• FAMILY
London's 1903 novel about the dog Buck, who is forced to confront the harsh realities of survival in the brutal Arctic, is accompanied by the novel White Fang and a short story, To build a fire. Apart from its literary themes, the book is rich in details of history and geography, flora and fauna -- and it gives an awful lot of information about Klondike sled dogs.
(ARC10, $7.95) |
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The Best of Robert Service, Illustrated Edition
• Robert Service
• Clarence Kinsey
• Clarke Kinsey
LITERATURE •
2003 •
HARD COVER
• 199 PAGES
• FAMILY
A collection of favorites by the poet laureate of the North including "The Spell of the Yukon" and "Ballads of the Cheechako." A bank teller in Whitehourse during the Klondike gold rush, Service immortalized the frontier personalities and character in his colorful read-out-loud sagas. This handsome hardcover edition features period photographs by brothers Clarke and Clarence Kinsey, who capture the people, animals and machines of the Alaskan gold rush in evocative black-and-white images.
(ALA37, $19.98) |
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