Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Kumak's Fish: A Tale of the Far North
    Unavailable
    Kumak's Fish: A Tale of the Far North
    Unavailable
    Kumak's Fish: A Tale of the Far North
    Ebook30 pages6 minutes

    Kumak's Fish: A Tale of the Far North

    By Michael Bania

    3/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    On a beautiful Arctic morning, Kumak looks out the window of his house at the sun rising over the frozen river. "Ahhh, spring," says Kumak to his family. "The days are long, the nights are short, and the ice is still hard. Good day for fish." Eager to give Uncle Aglu's amazing hooking stick a try, Kumak packs up his family and heads out to go ice fishing. "Good day for fish!" they all agree. Hapless Kumac is the only one in his family without fish until the tug at the other end of his line incites a mighty battle. A clever ending reveals that the whale-sized fish that Kumak imagined was actually a line of small fish in tug o' war position. Kumak reigns, and there's plenty for everybody. Authentic details throughout the playful art and text, as well as endnotes on Inupiat fishing, provide young readers with a fascinating window into another culture in this follow up to KUMAK'S HOUSE a 2003 Children's Book Council Notable Trade Book in Social Studies
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlaska Northwest Books
    Release dateAug 1, 2015
    ISBN9781943328000
    Unavailable
    Kumak's Fish: A Tale of the Far North
    Author

    Michael Bania

    For almost twenty years, Michael Bania lived above the Arctic Circle. While residing in various Inupiat villages, she actively participated in the local culture and developed an understanding and respect for a distinct way of life. Here she met her husband, raised a family, and taught the children who would become the inspiration for Kumak and his tall tales from the far north. Art and illustration is a big part of Michael’s life. She wrote and illustrated her first children’s book at age six. Today she maintains her studio in Southeast Alaska.

    Related to Kumak's Fish

    Related ebooks

    Children's For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Yao Bai and the Egg Pirates

      Feb 1, 2023

      Yao Bai and the Egg Pirates
      6 min read

    • Article

      Serpentine Secrets

      Dec 1, 2021

      Serpentine Secrets
      4 min read

    • Article

      How I Met Mike Sakamoto

      Jun 1, 2020

      How I Met Mike Sakamoto
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Night of Adventure

      May 31, 2022

      It was vacation week for my mom; my sister, Arlene; my aunt Louise; my cousin Marilyn and me. The year was 1942. Our grandparents’ cottage at Gages Lake, Ill., was a wonderful place to spend the week. The cottage was located on lakefront property. Si

      2 min read

    • Article

      Night Demon of Ho‘okena

      Jul 1, 2022

      Publisher’s Note: We hope you enjoy this Reader’s favorite, from January 1988, Volume 12, Number 12, written by HFN staff writer and local TV celebrity, the late Mike Sakamoto. Look for more soon! Overhead, the mass of stars lit the sky; below, the s

      13 min read

    • Article

      Nature’s Realm

      Aug 29, 2018

      Nature’s Realm
      4 min read

    • Article

      Talking Turquoise

      Jul 1, 2021

      Talking Turquoise
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Great Flood

      Mar 6, 2023

      The Great Flood
      2 min read

    • Article

      Living With Nature

      Feb 1, 2024

      Living With Nature
      9 min read

    • Article

      No Road Will Take You There

      Feb 1, 2022

      No Road Will Take You There
      3 min read

    • Article

      Unstable Earth

      Nov 1, 2023

      “LET’S SHOW HER THE BIG MOUTH,” Marie Twitchell said to her dad. Wilson Twitchell smiled and shifted the angle of his boat motor slightly so they could take me there. We were on a small skiff, navigating a web of tundra lakes, rivers and sloughs in S

      3 min read

    • Article

      KIDS & BASSIN’

      Feb 7, 2022

      KIDS & BASSIN’
      5 min read

    • Article

      Off The Beaten Track

      Apr 19, 2022

      Off The Beaten Track
      5 min read

    • Article

      After the FIRES

      Jan 12, 2023

      After the FIRES
      15 min read

    • Article

      A Surf-Smashed Home With History

      Oct 3, 2017

      It’s nice to have a place to return to year after year, through thick and thin, from childhood and the teenage years to your single-minded, hard-fishing adult decades and into whatever lies beyond. For me, that place is a mussel bar in southern New E

      3 min read

    • Article

      Subsistence Abundance

      Aug 1, 2023

      Subsistence Abundance
      4 min read

    • Article

      Terrific Tenerife

      Jun 24, 2022

      Terrific Tenerife
      7 min read

    • Article

      Wild and Three

      Feb 11, 2020

      Wild and Three
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Galápagos Mermaid

      Apr 1, 2023

      The Galápagos Mermaid
      9 min read

    Reviews for Kumak's Fish

    3/5

    2 ratings2 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      A charming tale about a village that "pulls" together. Great book about team work and not giving up. The ending may surprise you.
    • 5/5
      This is a humorous tall tale about an Inuit family that goes ice fishing together. Kumak, the father of the family, has borrowed his uncle's lucky hooking stick, and he snags something so big that he can't pull it in by himself. Soon, the whole village forms a chain to help reel up the enormous fish, which turns out to be a huge chain of fish all holding on to one another. This book honors the Inupiaq values of cooperation, sharing, and humor, and ends happily. A great tall tale to showcase these positive values, as well as aspects of traditional Inuit culture. Humorous illustrations, also by the author, enhance the text. Recommended for ages 4-8.