If You're Happy and You Know It: Bilingual Inuktitut and English Edition

by Monica Ittusardjuat, Ali Hinch (Illustrator)

Overview

• If You’re Happy and You Know It but with a Northern twist!
• Includes Inuktitut syllabics, Roman orthography, and English text on each page - a unique bilingual book!
• Front matter includes instructions on how to sing along with the book''s characters.
• An interactive board book with a familiar song that children will recognize. Encourages physical activity and movement.
• Features recurring characters from Tuktu and Friends (Tuktu’s Journey, Tuktu’s Birthday). Tuktu translates to "caribou".
• This book was translated from the original song (which is public domain) by Monica Ittusardjuat, author of Making a Whole Person. She is the Senior Inuktitut Editor of Inhabit Education Books. She recently received the Council of the Federation Literacy Award for her work. She’s worked in Inuktut education for over 50 years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781774502440
Publisher:	Arvaaq Press
Publication date:	01/14/2022
Series:	Arvaaq Junior|Tuktu and Friends
Edition description:	Bilingual Inuktitut and English Edition
Pages:	18
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Monica Ittusardjuat was taken from her parents and sent to residential school at the age of seven, at a time when Inuit lived a subsistence way of life in winter camps and roamed around in spring and summer, following animals when they were plentiful. She went to three residential schools: Chesterfield Inlet, NWT (now Nunavut), for primary school, Churchill, Manitoba, for junior high, and St. Norbert, Manitoba, for high school. Monica graduated from McGill Universityin 1987. While teaching Community NTEP (Nunavut Teacher Education Program) in Nunavut, she earned her M.Ed. through the University of Prince Edward Island. She was the honour student for Baffin Island. She taught for many years in elementary schools, high schools, and teacher education programs, as well as in the Interpreter/Translator Program at Nunavut Arctic College. Monica tried to retire at the age of 60, but the habit of going to work was hard to break. She was the National Inuit Language Coordinator at Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami from 2016 to 2018 and is now Senior Inuktitut Editor at Inhabit Education, which she describes as her dream job.

Ali Hinch has been working as a full-time illustrator and designer in educational kids’ literature since getting her degree in illustration from Sheridan College. She’s also dabbled in puppet concepts, set design, storyboarding, and writing for animation. Currently living in Toronto, she spends a lot of time drinking iced tea and making new dog friends.