A short glossary and links to audio recordings of the Inuktitut words is included. The use of texture and pattern in the illustrations adroitly captures the experience described in the text. Inuit author Sammurtok’s beautiful story is matched with illustrations that use a controlled palette and intimate compositions to create a calming sensory experience. The text’s gentle pattern and repetition surrounds each idea and carries readers along, just as the child is carried. I love sleeping in my anaana’s amautik.” Finally, each spread ends with an affirmation of what the child loves about being carried. Her breathing feels like ocean waves gently rolling in and out. Each spread starts with a statement about how it feels “in my anaana’s amautik,” then expands that idea with a simple but powerful simile that evokes a connection with nature and/or a connection between mother and child: “In my anaana’s amautik, it feels peaceful. Toddler-PreS–In this sweet story, a young child describes the multitude of wonderful feelings and sensory experiences they have while being carried by their mother. Nadia Sammurtok lovingly invites the reader into the amautik-the pouch in the back of a mothers parka used to carry a child-to experience everything through the eyes of the baby nestled inside, from the cloudlike softness of the pouch to the glistening sound of Anaanas laughter.
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