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I Would Give You My Tail

Tanya Tagaq Qavavau Manumie

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Hardback

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Tundra Books
06 May 2025
Beautifully illustrated with a cloth-like spine, this imaginative picture book shares an Inuk child's experience

with gratitude and celebrates family connections from the newest

siblings to cherished Elders.

Beautifully illustrated with a cloth-like spine, this imaginative picture book shares an Inuk child's experience

with gratitude and celebrates family connections from the newest

siblings to cherished Elders.

A young boy, Kalluk, leaves his camp to tell his grandmother that his mother is about to have a baby. Along the way, Kalluk meets different animals and he asks them why they are so happy. The rabbits say they love to be fast enough to outrun the fox and clever enough to know when to hide. They are happy to protect each other from the winter wind- ""I'd give you my tail if I could!"" they say. A mother fox tells the boy her pups make her happy (and her pups say their mother makes them happy- ""We would give her our tails if we could!"" they say. Even the river and the wind have reasons to be happy. Kalluk's encounters with nature make him reflect on his gratitude for all it provides.

On the trip back, Kalluk and his grandmother talk about happiness, peace and choices. They speak to the ravens and get a lift from the wind right to Kalluk's doorstep. And waiting inside is a new baby sister! Holding her in his arms, Kalluk discovers a new reason to be thankful.
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Imprint:   Tundra Books
Country of Publication:   Canada
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 210mm, 
Weight:   567g
ISBN:   9781774880579
ISBN 10:   1774880571
Pages:   32
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 3 to 7 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  English as a second language
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

TANYA TAGAQ is a Canadian (Inuk) throat singer from Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuutiaq), Nunavut, Canada, on the south coast of Victoria Island. She is an author, improvisational performer, avant-garde composer, and experimental recording artist who won the 2014 Polaris Music Prize for her album Animism, a work that disrupted the music world in Canada and beyond with its powerfully original vision. Tanya's most recent album Retribution was released in fall 2016. Her first book for adults, Split Tooth has received numerous accolades and awards. Tanya's first picture book, It Bears Repeating, will publish in fall 2024. QAVAVAU MANUMIE was born in Brandon, Manitoba. He returned to Kinngait, Nunavut, as a very young child and now lives there with his son and grandchildren. In 1978, Qavavau began his career as an artist by packing and shipping carvings, and he is now a Master Stonecut Printmaker at Kinngait Studios. His art is idiosyncratic and often amusing in its depictions of Inuit legends and mythology, Arctic wildlife and contemporary aspects of Inuit life.

Reviews for I Would Give You My Tail

“[P]recision and care has brought out a true joy and appreciation for the world being depicted.” —Young Adulting


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