Kamik Takes the Lead

I found this picture book from the American Indians in Children's Literature Best Books. While dog sledding appears to be a lot of fun, it takes a lot of preparation and training to get the dogs and their masters ready for the race. Readers will learn about that training in this book, which is the f......more

Oddly this seems to be the fourth and final book in a series, and ends up being nothing like the full picture. The whole lot are about Jake, a young Inuit lad, and Kamik, a young husky who Jake has trained up for their first race. We see the kid and his team at the starting line, flash back through......more

While dog sledding might look like a lot of fun, there is a great deal of work and training that go into getting the dogs and their humans ready for the race. In this particular book, the fourth in a series featuring Jake and his puppy Kamik, readers learn about that training. Jake listens carefully......more

The fourth instalment in the Kamik series (I need to read the other three!), follows the story of Kamik, the Inuit dog and his friend, Jake. Jake desperately wants to enter the sled dog races with Kamik and the rest of the pack and so his uncle trains him how to do so over a year. Jake learns about......more

Using extra patience and care, a young dog sledder teaches his husky team to pull a sled in the youth races. There is a strong sense of place and culture. There are some good messages about how dogs have feelings and how they must be conditioned properly, so they are healthy and fit enough to sled.......more