Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak came and talked to the students who made it in through the snow storm. He was (born 1948 in Repulse Bay — then in the Northwest Territories, now in Nunavut) And stays in Vancouver Island in the winter. He is a Canadian children's writer and storyteller, who writes about Arctic and Inuit culture. He was named the winner of the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature in 2008.
He currently lives in Rankin Inlet, and has also worked as an educational administrator for Nunavut Arctic College. Ijiraq, a moon of Saturn, was named by astronomer John J. Kavelaars after encountering the term in one of Kusugak's books.
Works
- A Promise is a Promise (co-authored with Robert Munsch, 1989)
- Baseball Bats for Christmas (1990)
- Hide and Sneak (1992)
- Northern Lights: The Soccer Trails (1993)
- My Arctic 1,2,3 (1996)
- Arctic Stories (1998)
- Who Wants Rocks? (1999)
- The Curse of the Shaman, A Marble Island Story (2006)
- The Littlest Sled Dog (2008)
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