Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reviewed by: Ava and the Little Folk by Neil Christopher Jeannette Hulick, Reviewer Christopher, Neil Ava and the Little Folk ; written by Neil Christopher and Alan Neal; illus. by Jonathan Wright. Inhabit, 2013 42p ISBN 978-1-927095-02-7$13.95 R 7–10 yrs Shunned by the others in his Inuit village, orphaned boy Ava is surprised to find himself warmly welcomed by the Inugarulligaarjuit, the magical little people he meets one day in the Arctic wilderness. They invite him to stay, but Ava knows, sadly, that he’s much too big to fit through the door of their home. A group hunting trip leads to an eventual change of perspective for Ava, and he finds that after “learning to see things in new ways” he can in fact fit into the rock house, and he is happily adopted by a kind Inugarulligaarjuit family. The storytelling here is carefully polished and thoroughly engaging, and the glimpse into Inuit life and folklore is fascinating. Orphaned and mistreated Ava is a sympathetic figure, and there is great satisfaction in seeing him find a loving home with the magical, warm-hearted little people, who are clearly kin to the Western version of elves and leprechauns. While small print may make this a challenge to share with a group, Wright’s watercolor illustrations will engage viewers: pale browns and grays contrast with lots of white space to effectively capture the windy cold of the icy white Arctic setting, and the ruddy-nosed, stylized figures of Ava and the Inugarulligaarjuit are detailed and expressive. An introduction by Christopher gives some folkloric background for the story, and a list of character names (with meanings and pronunciations) and a glossary are also provided. Copyright © 2013 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.030 | 0.016 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".