by Ellen White

Kwulasulwut is a book containing 5 stories written to express lessons of life. They are stories from the Coast Salish tradition.

The story The Stolen Sun is about how a seagull tricked the sun into coming over for dinner to capture him. During the days the sun was missing, it was very dark. The ants find out where the sun is and tell the raven. The raven goes to the sea urchin for help. Together they figure out a way to free the sun.

In another story, the raven and the raccoon help each other out. We liked the part where the raven pushed the raccoon off the tree, because he was teaching him how to fly. We liked the story because people are meant to help each other like the raven and the raccoon did. Then we would have fewer problems.

The story Father Barbeques is interesting because it helps you understand some Native ways. It was about a boy who tried to tell his father how to barbeque. The story makes the comment that you can learn as much from your children as your children can learn from you.

We would read this book again, recommend it to a friend or read it to our children. The book is easy to read because the letters are big and there are big line drawings that help you imagine the story. It would be useful to anybody in Canada. They could compare it to their own stories. There is another book called The Eagle's Song that has some of these same stories in it.

A review by: Ann Alphonse, Doug Meers, Vicky Edwards, Evelyn Battell, Joe P. Duggan, Roseanne Sam, Walter McMillan, Elizabeth George, Bea Thomas, Larry Jack, Duncan, B. C.