In Windsor Castle there sits a “dollhouse like no other,” replete with working plumbing, electricity, and even a full library of real, tiny books. The Mouse and the Motorcycle (1965) upgrades to The Mice and the Rolls-Royce. The sky colors are particularly effective-the varying blues and orange of day and the reds and greens of the nighttime northern lights.Īnother compelling version of an inspiring story. The first-person narrative is set against Grimard’s dramatic paintings, which depict family members shown in close-ups and wide-angle views that take in the dramatic scenery of northern Canada. As they did with Margaret’s boarding school years in When I Was Eight (2013), the authors have distilled the years covered in A Stranger at Home (2011) into a moving picture book.
And, she learns to drive a dog sled, making her own mother proud. The skills Olemaun acquired at school help her nurse a puppy she mistakenly kept too long from its mother.
Appropriately for the young audience, the authors deal gently with the child’s trauma, showing how, in every case, things get better. Her best friend isn’t allowed to play with her anymore. She no longer understands the family’s language and finds the food inedible. She’s grown tall and skinny, her hair has been cut short, she has a different smell. When Olemaun (co-author Pokiak-Fenton) returns to her family, both her mother and her father’s dogs fail to recognize her. Ten-year-old Olemaun describes her return from two years at the outsiders’ school and her slow re-entry into her family’s Inuit world.
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