Title: -Mama, Do You Love Me?
Illustrator: Barbara Lavallee
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Year: -1991
Format: Softcover
Genre: - Multicultural
Illustrator: Barbara Lavallee
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Year: -1991
Format: Softcover
Genre: - Multicultural
Reading Level: - Assisted Reader
Interest Level: - Baby-Preschool
Topics: -Picture, Love, Culture
Summary: This book is about the Inuit people and telling a story with descriptions of their customs. The book starts out with Mama, Do you love me? Yes I do, Dear one. How Much? Then she explains how she loves her more than the raven loves his treasure, more than a dog loves his tail, and more than a whale loves his spout. Then the little girl asks how long. The mother explains that she will love her until umiak flies into the darkness, till the stars turn to fish in the sky, etc. Then the little girl gives all these silly stories to see if her mother will still love her. For example, the little girl asks what if I turned into a musk-ox? The mother says then I would be surprised but I would still love you. She explains at the end that she will love the little girl forever and for always. At the end of the book they give a description of all the things that we talked about in the book like the raven and the musk-ox and there importance to the Inuit people.
Interest Level: - Baby-Preschool
Topics: -Picture, Love, Culture
Summary: This book is about the Inuit people and telling a story with descriptions of their customs. The book starts out with Mama, Do you love me? Yes I do, Dear one. How Much? Then she explains how she loves her more than the raven loves his treasure, more than a dog loves his tail, and more than a whale loves his spout. Then the little girl asks how long. The mother explains that she will love her until umiak flies into the darkness, till the stars turn to fish in the sky, etc. Then the little girl gives all these silly stories to see if her mother will still love her. For example, the little girl asks what if I turned into a musk-ox? The mother says then I would be surprised but I would still love you. She explains at the end that she will love the little girl forever and for always. At the end of the book they give a description of all the things that we talked about in the book like the raven and the musk-ox and there importance to the Inuit people.
Extension Activities:
In the book there are many models of ceremonial masks used by the Inuit people. There are concentric rings withing the mask and objects like human hands that represent good luck or fish that represent an abundant game. So the children can make their own masks by using things from nature like sticks and leaves and then draw pictures of things that are important to them.
In the book there are many models of ceremonial masks used by the Inuit people. There are concentric rings withing the mask and objects like human hands that represent good luck or fish that represent an abundant game. So the children can make their own masks by using things from nature like sticks and leaves and then draw pictures of things that are important to them.
