SALIK AND HIS FATHER Keld Hansen and Catherine Maggs. St. John's, Breakwater Books, c1981. 35pp, paper, $21.00 a set of 4. ISBN 0-919948-944. SALIK AND THE BIG SHIP Keld Hansen and Catherine Maggs. St. John's, Breakwater Books, c1981. 35pp, paper, $21.00 a set of 4. ISBN 0-919948-83-9. SALIK AND THE SUMMER SONG DUEL Keld Hansen and Catherine Maggs. St. John's, Breakwater Books, c1981. 35pp, paper, $21.00 a set of 4. ISBN 0-919948-79-0. SALIK AND ARNALUK Keld Hansen and Catherine Maggs. St. John's, Breakwater Books, c1981. 35pp, paper, $21.00 a set of 4. ISBN 0-919948-78-2. Grades 3-5. Reviewed by Anne Kirkpatrick. Volume 10 Number 4. 1982 November. This series of fictionalized anthropology attempts to cover every aspect of Greenland Inuit life 300 years ago. We follow Salik, boy to man, through four slim paperbacks crammed with ethnological detail. The panoply of experiences includes birth (but not death), hunting, courting, fighting, and a near-fatal contact with gun-and-booze bearing whalers. While students may be interested in these aspects of culture, they suffer somewhat in this fiction treatment. The narrative is choppy, and no mood is ever created. Characters are as two-dimensional as the primitive illustrations, and it is unlikely that these books would be chosen for pleasure reading. As a source of information, the series does succeed with its clear, succinct descriptions using Inuit terms in context. Sentences are short, and the vocabulary easily comprehensible to grade 4 students. See references in the text refer to brief, clear, illustrated entries in the four-page appendices of each book. However, since references are frequently made to other books in the series, all must be at hand. Continuous topic-jumping, with neither index nor table of contents, requires excellent skimming skills if specific information is sought. (One can imagine torturous worksheets based on these books.) But students reading the whole series could be expected to gain a good general understanding of a particular way of life. Illustrations, predominantly in colour, share equal space with text. The primitive watercolours are appealing and informative, bolstering the text with mood and detail. This series is recommended as supplementary to a well-rounded non-fiction collection on the subject. Anne Kirkpatrick, Mission Hill E. S., Vernon, BC.