Recommended to anyone looking for sweetly reassuring picture-books for young children, as well as to those seeking children's stories with an Inuit cultural context. This is another title from the Nunavut-based Inhabit Media, an Inuit-owned publisher concentrating on books with an Inuit cultural context, and it is another winner. The animals and land share gifts such as love, patience, respect for animals, gentleness, and kindness. I enjoyed the text, and I also appreciated the artwork from illustrator Alexandria Neonakis, with its use of color and contrast. Kulu is a term of endearment for babies and young children in Inuktitut and the poem introduces Baby Kulu to the arctic summer. From adventurous Snow Bunting, who gives Arctic cotton seeds and flowers, to powerful Polar Bear, who teaches about respect for the wild, the creatures of land and sea give Kulu a "practical foundation to balance and build upon."Apparently author Celina Kalluk is an Inuit throat singer, and her musical gift certainly comes through in the lovely sing-song narrative of Sweetest Kulu. A newborn Inuit baby named Kulu is gifted with many wonderful traits and good wishes from the animals around him in this poetic picture-book.
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