Arctic Animals

In this bilingual board book, readers learn the English and Inuktitut names for eight animals that call the Arctic home, including a ptarmigan, wolf, caribou, and bearded seal. The names appear in Inuktitut syllabics, orthographic translations (so non-Inuktitut readers can sound out the words), and English. It's a useful tool, but the book's design isn't its strong suit. On the left-hand pages, photographs show each animal in its Arctic environs; the same image of the animal also appears at right, roughly cut out of its environment and dropped, inelegantly and repetitively, on a solid-colored backdrop above its name. Available simultaneously: Marine Mammals and Inuit Tools. Up to age 3. (July)