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The Moose of Ewenki
By Gerelchimeg Blackcrane, Helen Mixter (Translator), Jiu Er (Illustrator)
The Moose of Ewenki. Gerelchimeg Blackcrane. Translated by Helen Mixter. Illustrated by Jiu Er. Greystone Kids, 2019. Originally published as Ewenke de tuo lu in Chinese, by Jie Li Chu Ban She, Nanning, 2018. ISBN 9781771645386. 68 p. (Ages 5-9). Picture book.
Written by a multi-award-winning, best-selling (and rare) author from Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region in China bordering the country of Mongolia. Features a hunter from the reindeer-herding Ewenki people who inadvertently kills a mother moose, leaving an orphan calf. The hunter takes in the calf, but their relationship proves hard to sustain as the moose gets bigger (and a lot hungrier), and the hunter ages. The text is accompanied by richly detailed, painterly illustrations by Jiu Er, the first Chinese illustrator named to the IBBY Honour List. [dj]