Polar Bear

A companion to the authors' Sibert award-winning Honeybee, this book ushers readers into the life and habitat of a majestic endangered species through gripping text and lavish artwork.

April in the Arctic . . .
Cold winds send snow clouds scuttling across the sky.
Temperatures barely nudge above freezing.
But every now and again,
The cloud cover parts,
The sun shines down,
And the frozen world stretches awake.

As Arctic spring draws near, a mother polar bear and her two cubs cautiously stir from hibernation to take in the shifting landscape. When the time comes, she leads her cubs on a forty-mile trek back to their home on the ice, fending off wolves, hunting for food, and swimming for miles along the way. Standing alongside Honeybee and Giant Squid, this title showcases the distinctive gifts of Fleming and Rohmann on a perennially popular subject, with Eric Rohmann's magnificent oil paintings unfolding into a spectacular gatefold of the polar landscape, just as in Honeybee. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.