Helpers in My Community: Bilingual Inuktitut and English Edition

by Charlene Chua (Illustrator), Arvaaq Press

Who are your community helpers? This illustrated book features different helpers in Arctic communities.

16 pages, Paperback

Published February 5, 2019

About the author

Charlene Chua (pronounced: CHOO-ah) has illustrated many things over the years for kids of all ages.

Their illustration work has won several awards, while books she has illustrated have been nominated for OLA Forest of Reading, USBBY Outstanding International Books, OLA Best Bets, Shining Willow Award, and Kirkus Best books.

Charlene's author/illustrator debut, Hug? was published by Kids Can Press in 2020.

They are represented by Tracy Marchini at BookEnds Literary for all book projects.

Reviews

[Gemma · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was a bit disappointed with this book due to the lack of information. Granted, it is for young audiences so you don't want a lot of text. However, there is no description of the different community roles -- each page simply states the role in Inuktitut and English (ex. "This is a doctor". That's it).

It's very good to have dual languages and to see what types of roles are in such a community, but I think it would have been very useful for children to see *how* a doctor helps in that community. One of the roles, for example, is "elder". What does an elder do, or what is their role in the community? I don't know, and I don't think small kids would necessarily either?