Candace Fleming

Polar Bear

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Why this book counts

  • Life Science
  • Environment & Ecology
  • Nature Narrative / Field Discovery
  • Story / Adventure

Polar Bear follows a mother and two cubs emerging in Arctic spring and beginning to explore a changing seasonal landscape. Their first movements outside the den make parental care, cub development, habitat, and the search for food unfold as a family survival story.

The science inside

  • Animals & Zoology
  • Ecosystems

Your child will meet:

  • Polar bear cubs depend on maternal protection and learning as they first leave the den.
  • Seasonal changes in snow, ice, light, and food alter where polar bears can move and feed.
  • Parental behavior helps young animals practice the skills required for later independence.

Use it this way

At the den-emergence scene, ask your child to find one cub behavior and one mother behavior, then explain how the pair increases the cubs' safety or learning. Keep observations at picture-book distance: never approach bears or dens, and follow official polar-bear safety rules in bear country.

Parent effort: No prep

This companion book to the authors' Sibert award-winning Honeybee explores the life and habitat of a majestic endangered species through dramatic text and sumptuous illustration. 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 spring approaches in the Arctic, a mother polar bear and her two cubs tentatively emerge from hibernation to explore the changing landscape. When it is time, she takes her cubs on a forty-mile journey, back to their home on the ice. Along the way, she fends off wolves, hunts for food, and swims miles and miles. This companion book to Honeybee and Giant Squid features the unique talents of Fleming and Rohmann on a perennially popular subject. Eric Rohmann's magnificent oil paintings feature (as in Honeybee ) a spectacular gatefold of the polar landscape. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

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