‘Letting go’ is the message of new book for kids

 By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Inuk author Etua Snowball’s third children’s book is another vivid snapshot into his life as a youngster being raised at his family’s camp in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik. “These are my personal memoirs. How I grew up,” said Snowball. “I grew up on the land with my family… (These are) the things I wanted to put on paper and I thought people would love these kinds of books.” The Fawn tells the true and heart-warming story of a summer when Snowball befriended a caribou fawn. Having stayed home one day from helping his father guide tourists, a little Etua “watched a caribou give birth to a tiny, slimy calf. The fawn stared at me,” he writes. From there, Etua started caring for the fawn, made…

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