The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish: Based on a True Story
by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Illustrated by Beth Krommes

Books and Resources Related to
The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called FISH: Based on a True Story

About the arctic and the Inupiat:

Ekoomiak, Normee. Arctic Memories. Owlet Paper. 1992.

This is an Inuit book, but might be useful.

Fowler, Allan. Arctic Tundra: Land With No Trees. Children's Press, 1997.

Hall, Edwin S. The Eskimo Storyteller. University of Tennessee, 1975. A resource for adults.

Hess, Bill. Gift of the Whale: Inupiat Bowhead Hunt, a Sacred Tradition. Sasquatch Books, 1999

(240 pp.) Sounds like a wonderful resource for librarians and teachers.

George, Jean Craighead. Arctic Son. (Illus. by Wendell Minor). Hyperion. Paper, 1999.

Kakinya, Elijah & Paneak, Simon. Numamiut Unipkaanich, Nunamiut Stories. Available from the Inupiaq History Language and Culture Center, Box 69, Barrow, Alaska. $15.00.

Norman, Howard (re-teller). Northern Tales: Stories of Native Peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions. Pantheon Books, 1990.

Steltzer, Ulli. Building an Igloo. Henry Holt, 1995.

About polar exploration: Armstrong, Jennifer. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: Shackleton's Amazing Voyage. Crown, 1998. (128 pp.)

Burleigh, Robert. Black Whiteness: Admiral Byrd Alone in the Antarctic (Illustrated by Walter Lyon Krudop) Atheneum, 1998.

Hooper, Meredith. The Endurance: Shackleton's Perilous Expedition in Antarctica. (M.D. Robertson, Illustrator). Abbeville, 2001.

Webb, Sophie. My Season with Penguins. Houghton Mifflin, 2000. (48 pp). A biologist and artist gives an account of her trip(s) to Antarctica to study penguins.

Useful web sites:

Ethnographic Portraits - The Inupiat Eskimo of Arctic Alaska
http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/Historyculture/Inupiat/1800s.html This specific page is adapted from Norman A. Chance's The Inupiat and Arctic Alaska (1990), Harcourt Brace. The globe at the bottom of the page will take visitors back to the main Arctic page on the University of Connecticut site and will have much useful information and many links.

IHLC Home page (Inupiat History Language and Culture) -- North Slope Borough, Barrow, Alaska
http://www.co.north-slope.ak.us/ihlc
This is a wonderful site, devoted to providing native peoples and others with information about the history, language and culture of the Inupiat.

The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish: Based on a True Story. Illustrated by Beth Krommes. Houghton Mifflin, 2001. ISBN 0-618-00341-X.
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