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		L'anniversaire d'Aputik Diane Groulx Illustrations: Brenda Watson Translation: Sarah Beaulne Saint-Damien-de-Brandon, Quebec: Éditions du soleil de minuit, 2003. 24 p. ISBN 2922691241 Ages 4 to 8
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Aputik, a young Inuk, is getting ready to celebrate her fifth birthday. While watching television, she is attracted by an advertisement for a multi-action doll. She mentions it to her mother, who has an even bigger surprise in store for her. For the first time, Aputik is to help gather mussels on the sea ice in preparation for her birthday dinner with all the relatives. To finish this memorable day, her parents give her a unique gift: a doll designed by her great-grandmother to instill the values of her culture. The message the story conveys is that simple things can give great pleasure.

The very attractive watercolours created by illustrator Brenda Watson appear on each page of text, which is simultaneously translated into Inuktitut.

The collection includes Les familles du Nunavik, La grand-mère d'Aputik and L'album d'Aputik.

–CM

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