The Itchy Little Musk Ox - Rilegato

Brown, Tricia

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ISBN 10: 0882406132 ISBN 13: 9780882406138

Casa editrice: Alaska Northwest Books, 2007

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Although his mother urges patience, a young musk ox who cannot wait for his skin to stop itching wanders away from the herd to find anything with which he can scratch, and meets three other creatures who teach him about his strengths.

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AUTHOR BIO

Tricia Brown fell in love with Alaska in 1978, when she first moved north from the Chicago area. For the next twenty-one years, she wandered the state and wrote for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and the Anchorage Daily News, and later edited Alaska magazine before entering book publishing in 1998. For five years, she was acquisitions editor for Alaska Northwest Books and WestWinds Press, a job that took her to Portland, Oregon. Tricia has written six children's books: the award-winning Children of the Midnight Sun, Groucho's Eyebrows, The Itchy Little Musk Ox, Alaskan Night Before Christmas, Patsy Ann of Alaska, and Musher's Night Before Christmas.

For the grown-ups, she has written The World-Famous Alaska Highway, The Iditarod Fact Book, Moose Views, and the forthcoming The Alaska Homesteader’s Handbook. A grandmother of six, Tricia and her husband, Perry, currently live in Oregon. She travels to Alaska often to speak, research, and write.

Tricia is available for school and library visits anywhere in the country. Bring a taste of Alaska to your community. Check her website at www.triciabrownbooks.com for details on how to arrange a day or half-day visit to your favorite school or library.

ILLUSTRATOR BIO

Debra Dubac is a full-time illustrator/designer and mom. Her Alaskan surroundings, and all its natural resources, continuously inspire her to produce colorful expressions of some of the most admired wildlife and nature in the world. Her work has received recognition from the Alaska Press Club, the Advertising Federation of Alaska, and the Society of Professional Journalists. She is the illustrator of The Itchy Little Musk Ox and Musher's Night Before Christmas. She lives in Anchorage, Alaska. http://dubac.net/

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� The first book for children about the prehistoric-looking musk ox.

� Endnotes give factual information about the musk ox for teachers and parents

� Award-winning author

� The Musk Ox Farm in Palmer, Alaska, has the best-known and most accessible herd. Many thousands of visitors come through every summer between May and September http://www.muskoxfarm.org/

� Alex Trebek and Olivia Newton-John are two celebrities who have adopted musk ox at the farm

� The natural territory of the musk ox includes Norway, Iceland, Greenland, and Canada

� The Oomingmak Shop in Anchorage is the main outlet for purchase of items made of qiviut. (Oomingmak is the Yup’ik work for musk oxen) http://www.qiviut.com/

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