The Itchy Little Musk Ox

ISBN: 9780882406145

出版社: Graphic Arts Center Pub Co

出版年: 2006-10

页数: 32

定价: $ 11.24

装帧: Pap

内容简介

The patience of a little musk-ox is sorely tried when he suffers an itch that he can't scratch. There's not a tree in sight-nothing to rub against for relief-so he wanders away from the herd looking for a branch, a rock pile, anything. On his journey, he meets with three individuals: a buffalo, a wolf, and a Native woman. Through his interaction with each one, he learns something new and affirming about himself before returning to the herd. Endnotes include information about how musk-ox were native to Alaska until they were decimated by hunters in 1865, then reintroduced in the early 1930s; biological/behavioral details about the animals; and info about the cottage industry among Native villages in which women knit the qiviut (KIV-ee-oot), the rare underwool, into beautiful, warm garments.