thank you for This book.
I really loved it. first of all it is very beautiful and vivid. the pictures are wonderful. I think it'd be pleasure to hold the book in my or a child's hands. I like that this story is about Eskimo, as for me I've never read something like that. also this book has a glossary which is very useful and thought-out. I definitely recommend it to someone else and read some other stories of the author.
a really great job. thank you, dear author!

This book is a new folk tale for me and was thoroughly enjoyable. It tells how sea parrots came to be. The illustrations are very well done and add so much to the story.

I've loved all of Vanita's books that I've seen so far, but this one didn't do much for me. The story is very long and 'wordy', and it is very difficult to ascertain the target age group for such a book. Telling the story of the Inuit people of North America and a story passed down from generation to generation, it is certainly interesting, but quite a taxing read for children. Even being read to by an adult, I imagine this is quite heavy going. I also found the text to be unnecessary small.

Lovely folk tale. Is educational and engaging and the illustrations are rich in color and a delight. A great teaching tool to learn about another culture.

An excellent and engaging picture book that teaches an important lesson of hospitality.

This is a wonderful Inuit tale with the main character, me, telling how he or she learned the story of how the Sea parrots (puffins) came to be.

Very easy to read and understand, as the main character hears the story from the elder, and learns about their origin.

I bring up that it is easy to understand, because to the Western, European ear, many Indiginous peoples' myths sound odd, and confusing. We are used to the homogenized Greek and Roman myths, that all make "sense" to us, and are logical, and why can't all myths make sense like that. Heck, if everyone though that same, think how dull things would be.

I bring up that this book is easy to understand and totally accessible, because the first time I read a Inuit myth, when I was a mere child, I got every confused. It is the myth of Sedna, the goddess of sea animals, who grew the sea creatures felon her cut off fingers. To me, at the time,t hat made no sense. To me, as an adult, it makes about as much sense as any other myth.

So, with the delightful pictures, and the delightful story, I hope we get more Inuit tales, just as good as this one.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

This book is based on a First Nations' story that takes place in the Arctic. There are colourful, beautiful illustrations and it definitely reads like a spoken story. There is beautiful imagery in sentences such as: 'Finally the fog lifted and I saw it all as one sees after waking from a dream.'

The book is about a young boy who learns of a legend on where the puffins came from while on a journey to the island of a great hunter.

I appreciated the 'new words' section in the back and would have liked to see a list of character names and island names with pronunciations included to help with the telling of the story. I appreciated the illustrator using realistic facial features and skin tones that are similar to the people of the story being told.

This would be a great resource for a teacher to use and for students to enjoy, however, the language would be a challenge for the students to read this book independently.

As someone who lives in Nunavut I very much enjoy stories of the Inuit culture. This is a lovely story of the Fish-Boy, his father Kitmesuk and the people they visit. The illustration are beautiful and colourful. They add so much to the story. I appreciated the glossary at the end as well.

Fish-Boy, An Inuit Folk Tale as told by Vanita Oelschlager. Art by Mike Blanc. Vanita Books.
An Inuit folk tale about the fish-boy who comes from the water and has no arms but convinces a fisherman to adopt him, then helps bring a wealth of fish to him and his village. Accepting an invitation to another island, Fish-boy magically defeats an opponent who unfairly challenges him and leaves these unfriendly, inhospitable and unkind people to their strange, but deserving, fate. Highly recommend. Thanks to NetGalley and Vanita Books for providing this ebook for review.

This is such a charming little book! All 25 pages are beautifully illustrated, with striking colours and likable characters, and the story itself is educational in an unobtrusive, and even humorous way. What a reader may take from this book is the message of spreading love and hospitality, and equality and acceptance of people who are 'different'.