Status
Available
Series
Collection
Publication
Lee & Low Books (2007), 32 pages
Description
Describes, in text and photographs, the vanishing culture of the Samis, the reindeer herders of the land in the far north called Finmark.
Local notes
School Library Journal, 04/30/1992
Gr 3-6-- A photo essay that gives insight into the Sami culture in Finmark (or Lapland). Reynolds portrays a family working to preserve a slowly dying, nomadic way of life in the harsh land above the Arctic Circle. The documentation of the Utsi family, which includes the parents and two young daughters, begins in early spring when the family rounds up the reindeer to herd them to the high mountains. The full-color photography is striking, and the bond between master and reindeer is very evident. No explanation is given as to why work clothes are as elabolately decorated as those the Samis don for the spring celebration, and there is no mention of schooling. The author's postscript gives a chilling account of how the Chernobyl nuclear disaster impacted the unsuspecting Samis and affected their centuries-old way of life. The strength of this book is not as a primary source for reports but as a lovely photographic introduction to a vanishing people. --Mollie Bynum, Chester Valley Elem . School, Anchorage, AK
Gr 3-6-- A photo essay that gives insight into the Sami culture in Finmark (or Lapland). Reynolds portrays a family working to preserve a slowly dying, nomadic way of life in the harsh land above the Arctic Circle. The documentation of the Utsi family, which includes the parents and two young daughters, begins in early spring when the family rounds up the reindeer to herd them to the high mountains. The full-color photography is striking, and the bond between master and reindeer is very evident. No explanation is given as to why work clothes are as elabolately decorated as those the Samis don for the spring celebration, and there is no mention of schooling. The author's postscript gives a chilling account of how the Chernobyl nuclear disaster impacted the unsuspecting Samis and affected their centuries-old way of life. The strength of this book is not as a primary source for reports but as a lovely photographic introduction to a vanishing people. --Mollie Bynum, Chester Valley Elem . School, Anchorage, AK