Baseball Bats for Christmas

Life in the high Arctic is beautifully captured in this classic picture book by award-winning Inuit author Michael Kusugak. The year is 1955 and Arvaarluk and his friends watch as Rocky Parsons lands his plane on the ice in Repulse Bay, a tiny community “smack dab on the Arctic Circle.” Having never seen trees before, the children try to guess what the six green spindly things are that Rocky delivers. One of the boys has a brilliant idea: why not use them as baseball bats?

About This Book

By: Micheal Kusugak

Illustrated by: Vladyana Krykorka

Published by: Annick Press

8-11Age Range

3.6 AR

23Pages

ChristmasSubject

640LLexile

5-20 minsReading Time

NGuided Reading

NFountas & Pinnell

30DRA

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