Goodbye, My Island - Hardcover
Esther Atoolik is saddened when the declining population of her home, King Island, forces her family and the other Eskimos living there to settle permanently on the mainland
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Esther Atoolik is twelve years old and her Alaskan village is getting smaller; there aren't enough children to keep the school open. What to do? the people ask. Should we abandon our island in the Bering Sea that her people have lived on for centuries? Here is the tender, true story of Esther's last season in her island home and the wonderful memories she carries with her. A chapter book illustrated with the drawings of Rie Muñoz.
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“The closing of King Island school in 1964 marked the end of a way of life for the islanders. For a year or two longer a few did return to the island for the winter, but gradually the abandoned World War II huts in Nome in which they camped summers became their permanent home.” Jean Rogers, from the Afterword, Goodbye, My Island.
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- PublisherGreenwillow Books
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 068801965X
- ISBN 13 9780688019655
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages85
- IllustratorMunoz Rie
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Munoz, Rie (illustrator). 1st Edition. inscribed by Jean Rogers. 2nd printing. dj has light edge wear but attractive in mylar. book is unmarked, solid, clean. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 4416423
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Munoz, Rie (illustrator). First Edition. A nice clean copy of the First Edition, with slight bumping to the bottom corners, else Very Good in jacket that has light wear, but is not chipped or torn. 85pp., with 10 b/w illustrations, chapter vignettes; and dust jacket pictorial illustraion, all by Rie Munoz. Seller Inventory # 631633
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Good. Munoz, Rie (illustrator). Signed. First Edition. 'Signed by Auhtor/ Illustrator'. Small pencil markings on prelim pages. Cover/edges have faint scuffing. Seller Inventory # mon0003226655
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