By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Inuk author Etua Snowball’s third children’s book is another vivid snapshot into his life as a youngster being raised at his family’s camp in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik. “These are my personal memoirs. How I grew up,” said Snowball. “I grew up on the land with my family… (These are) the things I wanted to put on paper and I thought people would love these kinds of books.” The Fawn tells the true and heart-warming story of a summer when Snowball befriended a caribou fawn. Having stayed home one day from helping his father guide tourists, a little Etua “watched a caribou give birth to a tiny, slimy calf. The fawn stared at me,” he writes. From there, Etua started caring for the fawn, made

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