There are some really big animals in the Arctic! This book features big animals that live in the North, such as the polar bear and muskox.
Learn some of the ways people in the North use the outdoors for travel, gathering food, and having fun!This non-fiction book uses a friendly child narrator to introduce readers to some of the traditional skills used by people living in the Arctic.
Junior Field Guide: Plants of Nunavut (Junior Field Guides)
by Carolyn Mallory
Animals Illustrated mixes fun-filled animal facts suitable for the youngest of readers with intricately detailed illustrations to create a unique and beautiful collection of children’s books on Arctic animals. Each volume contains first-hand accounts from authors who live in the Arctic, along with interesting facts on the behaviours and biology of each animal. Kids will learn about how walruses raise their young in the cold Arctic ocean, what they eat, and where they can be found, along with ot...
Ice Road Truckers (Dangerous Jobs (Updog Books (Tm)))
by Clara Cella
This bilingual board book introduces infants to the names of various items of Arctic animals. Text appears in English, Inuktitut syllabics, and Roman orthography, meaning that even non-Inuktitut speakers can sound out the Inuktitut words. Arctic Animals features full-colour photographs of a variety of Arctic animals.
Kaakuluk is an exciting, fact-filled magazine about Nunavut for all curious kids, north and south! Each issue includes activities, traditional stories, and articles about life in the Arctic. This series is printed in full colour with photographs and illustrations throughout that will be sure to capture the attention of young readers.
Age range 6+ The polar bear is known by many names in different languages — White Bear, Ice Bear, Sea Bear. It is Sailor of the Icebergs, Whale's Curse, Seal's Dread. It is the animal deserving of great respect, the Ever-wandering One, the Master of Helping Spirits, Grandfather or God's Dog. Whatever its name, what is certain is that this majestic Arctic animal is threatened by extinction and in need of human protection before it disappears from our world forever.
From Gail Gibbons, the #1 author of science books for kids, this guide to those wonderful waddling water birds is updated with the latest facts from experts. In this new edition vetted by experts, learn about some of the seventeen different kinds of penguins. With bright watercolor illustrations and kid-friendly language, Gail Gibbons introduces young readers to zoology concepts, describing where and how penguins live, what they eat, and how they hatch their young. With updated information on s...
Arctic and Antarctic Survival Guide (Brave the Biome)
by Sarah Eason
This fascinating and informative survival guide introduces readers to the challenging environments of the arctic and antarctic. Useful tips tell you how to shelter from blizzards, what you can—and shouldn’t—eat, what materials are available in frozen lands for building shelter, and what animals to avoid. Real life stories demonstrate how humans can survive on their own in polar regions.
Kaakuluk is an exciting, fact-filled magazine about Nunavut for all curious kids, north and south! Each issue includes activities, traditional stories, and articles about life in the Arctic. This series is printed in full colour with photographs and illustrations throughout that will be sure to capture the attention of young readers.
Kaakuluk is an exciting, fact-filled magazine about Nunavut for all curious kids, north and south! Each issue includes activities, traditional stories, and articles about life in the Arctic. This series is printed in full colour with photographs and illustrations throughout that will be sure to capture the attention of young readers.
Scientists no longer debate whether the global climate is changing. Earth's atmosphere is warming up, and temperatures are rising twice as fast in the Arctic as the global average. How will climbing temperatures affect the ancient culture of the Inupiat people of Alaska's North Slope? Their culture revolves around the tradition of hunting bowhead whales from a platform of ice on the water. The hunt is the great co-operative endeavour that brings the community together to work, store food for lea...
Questions About Antarctica (This or That?: Survival Edition)
by Jaclyn Jaycox
Antarctica (Go Exploring! Continents and Oceans)
by Steffi Cavell-Clarke
Explore the world's seven continents and five oceans in this fantastic, globe-trotting series. Each book discovers one of the world's continents and its surrounding oceans with detailed maps, engaging photographs and age-appropriate text. Readers will be able to identify the location, countries, landscape, climate and wildlife of each continent.
A beautifully designed, fact-filled fold-out book on Antarctica. John, an intrepid journalist, has long dreamt of visiting Antarctica - and finally his dream is coming true. He's off to Antarctica to be part of a scientific expedition. Join him on his journey as he learns all about this amazing continent and the people who work there.
Arctic Ocean (Oceans of the World)
by Louise Spilsbury and Richard Spilsbury
Learning About Antarctica (Do You Know The Continents Searchlight) (Searchlight Books (TM) -- Do You Know the Continents?)
by Christine Petersen
Make science accessible with this essential series that will capture children’s imagination while laying the foundation for future learning. With clear, simple language and a compelling design, Discover Science gives young readers the answers to fundamental questions about animal homes, birds, light and sound, materials, and more.
A celebrity among the ranks of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton at the turn of the twentieth century, Fridtjof Nansen contributed tremendous amounts of new information to our knowledge about the Arctic. At a time when the North Pole was still undiscovered territory, he attempted to make it to the Pole in a way that most experts thought was mad: Nansen purposefully locked his ship in ice for two years in order to float northward along the currents. This compelling account of his Arctic expedition...