Be Beloved, Borealis
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Be Beloved, Borealis
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Narrated by:
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Rachelle Heger
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By:
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Britney Hill
"What lies in the bitter cold rests a warm, cozy heart."
In the arctic cold moon of Alaska, two Iñupiat parents, Anaana and Ataata, get ill with a bacterial disease called, tuberculosis, from travelers. Before their daughter, Borealis, can contract the disease, her parents sent her away in a home all by herself, small and dingy on the outside, tender and soft on the inside.
On Borealis's birthday, Anaana and Ataata gifted her a knitted polar bear she named Noonani.
Before Noonani became a knitted polar bear, she was once a tamarack tree with all her needles shed off during the winter solstice. Mistaken for a dead tree, Anaana saws down the tree from Noonani's soothing home. Anaana and Ataata form Noonani into wood pulp thread. Then, they sew her into a one-of-a-kind handmade gift and new friend for Borealis.
Through the sewn-in eyes of Noonani, she grows fond of Borealis's warmth and nurturance, even in the frostbitten cold of the north.
With calmness and care, Noonani wishes, "Be Beloved, Borealis."
©2026 Britney Hill (P)2026 Rachelle Heger