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Kusugak, Michael

The Littlest Sled Dog

32 pp. | Orca | October, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-1-55143-752-1 $19.95

(2) PS Illustrated by Vladyana Krykorka. Cairn terrier pup Igvillu dreams (impossibly) of being a fierce sled dog, but fate has something else in store, and Igvillu's life with an Inuit storyteller in far-northern Rankin Inlet has its own rewards. The story's sly confluence of fantasy and reality, tradition and modernity, is captured in candy-colored pictures that blithely swoop from Igvillu's dreams to the equally spectacular Nunavut landscape.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2009