Berry Magic

by Teri Sloat (Author)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

Long ago, the only berries on the tundra were hard, tasteless, little crowberries.

As Anana watches the ladies complain bitterly while picking berries for the Fall Festival, she decides to use her magic to help. ""Atsa-ii-yaa (Berry), Atsa-ii-yaa (Berry), Atsaukina!"" (Be a berry!), Anana sings under the full moon turning four dolls into little girls that run and tumble over the tundra creating patches of fat, juicy berries: blueberries, cranberries, salmonberries, and raspberries. The next morning Anana and the ladies fill basket after basket with berries for the Fall Festival. Thanks to Anana, there are plenty of tasty berries for the agutak (Eskimo tee cream) at the festival and forevermore.

Yup'ik Eskimo elder Betty Huffmon shared this folktale with author/illustrator Teri Sloat, who brings it to life with her delightful illustrations.

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Sloat dresses her smiling figures in mixes of furs and brightly patterned garb, and sends them tumbling exuberantly through grassy tundra scenes as wildlife large and small gathers to look on. . . . Young readers will be captivated by the action, and by Anana's infectious delight.

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Teri Sloat
Teri Sloat is the author of THERE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A TROUT!, as well as the author and/or illustrator of many other books for children. A former teacher, she lives with her husband and their three children north of San Francisco. Betty Huffmon was the first Yup'ik teacher in Alaska. She worked at the Bilingual Education Center in Bethel, and later directed the Bilingual/Bicultural Center after having been part of a team to make Yup'ik a first language in some of the delta schools and other villages in western Alaska. She also shared the tale for THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE with author/illustrator Teri Sloat.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780882405766
Lexile Measure
660
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books
Publication date
April 01, 2004
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV013030 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
JUV012030 - Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore | General
JUV011040 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Native American
JUV050000 - Juvenile Fiction | Cooking & Food
Library of Congress categories
Yupik Eskimos
Berries

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