This heartwarming story based on the author's own life experience teaches young readers the value of hard work, helping, and caring-even when the thing you are caring for does not love you back.

Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley was born at the northernmost edge of Baffin Island, in the Canadian Arctic. She grew up learning traditional survival lore from her father. She and her husband Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley were brought together by a love of nature and each other. They write Arctic speculative fiction and nonfiction for various ages.