Description
Erin Snow is an Indigenous women, educator and children’s author from Newfoundland and Labrador. She is a proud member of NunatuKavut with deep roots on the southcoast of Labrador. Her work centers on place-based learning, cultural awareness, and helping young readers build their own knowledge while creating meaningful and respectful connections to culture, place, land, sea, ice, and water. Through her stories, she brings together literacy, cultural awareness, connections, understanding, and Indigenous perspectives in ways that are engaging, fun and inclusive for children.
Author Erin Snow dedicates this book to her father, Wayne Howard Elson, member of NunatuKavut, Knowledge Keeper, whose family was born and raised in and around Spotted Island. Inuttitut translation by Sarah Townley, retired NLESD Program Staff for Inuit Education, Nunatsiavut Elder. This book includes Southern Labrador cultural connections, resource list, a chart for signing the fingerspelling alphabet, and an educational resource guide with suggested lesson ideas.
What can you see from A-Z underneath the Labrador Sea is an amazing A–Z book, where young readers are introduced to sea animals, plants, and features of this northern ocean—from cod fish, whales to zooplankton. With engaging language, the words, translated into Inuktitut, encourage curiosity about marine life while fostering respect for language and the world and Indigenous people all around.