Shaw-Mackinnon, Margaret. Illustrator/ Laszalo Gal. Tiktala. Toronto, ON: Stoddart. ISBN: 0-773729-20-8
Age: 6 - 14
Language: English
Subject: Children, Youth; Fiction; Arctic; Inuit

Tiktala, a young Inuk girl, wants to be a soapstone carver. She tells a spirit that she meets that she wants to carve harp seals. She then travels to the underwater world of the seal and learns many things about it.

Shemie, Bonnie. 1995. Houses of Adobe. Toronto, ON: Tundra Books.
ISBN: 0-88776-330-8
Age: 8 - 14
Language: English
Subject: Children, Youth; Non-Fiction; Southwestern

Three thousand years ago, the first people to live in the southern USA built houses that evolved into today’s pueblos.

Shemie, Bonnie. 1993. Mounds of Earth and Shell. Montreal, QC: Tundra Books.
ISBN: 0-88776-318-9
Age: 8 - 14
Language: English
Subject: Children, Youth; Non-Fiction; Southeast

This book focuses on the sacred and ceremonial sites in the southeast USA.

Shemie, Bonnie. 1992. Houses of Wood: Native Dwellings. Montreal, QC: Tundra Books. ISBN: 0-88776-284-0
Age: 8 - 14
Language: English
Subject: Children, Youth; Non-Fiction; Pacific Northwest

This book looks at the houses of people on the Pacific Northwest, the tools they used and the art that they decorated them with.