Sukaq and the Raven

A young Inuit boy named Sukaq drifts into a waking dream state as his anaana (mother) tells him the story of how Raven created the world. Perched on the back of the giant raven who flew through the emptiness of space before the world came to be, Sukaq witnesses the creation of the earth, from a ball......more

This is a traditional Inuit story from the Northwest Territories in what is now the country of Canada. With illustrations so beautifully rendered that they could easily hang in any museum, and an Indigenous creation story that explains how the Inuit have historically explained the creation of the wo......more

I habit Media has a great track record for publishing excellent native and indigenous picture books. This one is no exception. An Inuit creation myth reframed as a bedtime story, this is a lovely twist by a traditional Inuit storyteller with wonderful art.......more

Sukaq listens as his anaana tells him his bedtime story of how the raven created the world. It's his favorite because it gives him the best dreams, including this one. Kerry McCluskey retells this legend she heard from Inuit storyteller Roy Goose. The story is pleasant enough, but the star is the stu......more

A very pleasant way to embellish a traditional Inuit creation myth, where a boy receives the story as a bedtime tale, and dreams his way into the creation of the Earth's cosmos and humans by a mahoosive raven. It's not a huge and over-developed text, but to some extent it may have been too slender w......more