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Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiii, 288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Prime Arctic predator and nomad of the sea ice and tundra, the polar bear endures as a source of wonder, terror, and fascination. Humans have seen it as spirit guide and fanged enemy, as trade good and moral metaphor, as food source and symbol of ecological crisis. Eight thousand years of artifacts attest to its charisma, and to the fraught relationships between our two species. In the White Bear, we acknowledge the magic of wildness: it is both...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is March in the cold North. The long-gone sun is rising. Silvery ice glitters. Snow sparkles in the hazy glow. Two polar bears stand at ice edge: mother and cub. A mother polar bear and her cub are busy searching for food when suddenly, the ice they stand on breaks away-crack! Cut adrift, her cub is out of reach as the treacherous sea beings to carry him away. In she dives! Can they return to land safely? Simply told yet dramatic, and with realistic,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Describes how a polar bear and the little fox that follows it survive over the course of a year in the Arctic. Includes afterword with facts about Arctic animals and Inuit peoples. More lasting friendship evolves between Little Bear and Little Fox when the fox saves his giant friend from killer whales. Breathtaking, snowbound scenes mark this poetic and illustrated triumph. Full color.
5) Ice bears
Author
Language
English
Description
On a freezing day in the arctic, two polar bear cubs venture outside with their mother. She teaches them how to use their claws so they don't slip in their frozen world.
6) The ice bear
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
A bear-child is found by a hunter and his wife who care for him for seven years but, after the child wanders off, the hunter finds the child with his bear mother and the child must decide if he will go with the hunter or stay with his mother.
Author
Series
Magical animal fairies volume 7
Language
English
Description
There's only one magic animal left to find, but Jack Frost isn't going to let the magic bear go without a fight.
Author
Publisher
Bearport Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
It was early September 2009. Researcher BJ Kirschhoffer was in Churchill, Canada, to study polar bears. It didn't take long, however, for him to notice that something was wrong. There were bears all over the place, but many did not look healthy. Some were so skinny that BJ could see their ribs through their white fur. Why weren't these bears getting enough food to eat?
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Canada
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Simon & Schuster Canada edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 161 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the top of the world, Hudson Bay looks like an enormous paw print on the torso of the continent, and through a vast network of lakes and rivers, the water in this bay connects to oceans across the globe. Here, at the heart of everything, walks Nanurjuk, or Nanu, one polar bear among the six thousand that traverse the 1.23 million square kilometres of ice and snow covering the bay. For millennia, Nanu's ancestors have roamed this great expanse,...
Author
Publisher
Van Nostrand Reinhold
Pub. Date
[1970]
Physical Desc
104 p. illus., map (on lining papers) 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the eighty-nine year career of the ice ship Bear, lauded for her role as a rescue vessel in the Arctic, her law enforcement activities in Alaska, and her participation in Antarctic expeditions.
Author
Series
Bears of the ice volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is a time of trouble in the Northern Kingdoms because a group of power-hungry polar bears called Roguers has been snatching cubs from their mothers and killing those who resist; but Svenna is not about to relinquish her two cubs to that fate, so she agrees to go with the Roguers and serve Mystress of the Hands if her cubs, who have special powers, are allowed to stay with her cousin--but nobody is truly safe when a way of life is collapsing around...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Cubs Stellan and Jytte survived their treacherous trek across the Nunquivik, but their quest to rescue their mother has only begun. Svenna is imprisoned at the sinister Ice Clock--the headquarters of the Gran Patek, whose dangerous influence is spreading throughout the bear kingdom. Only one bear has ever stood up to the Grand Patek--Svern, the cubs' father, a famous warrior who's been in exile for years. And so, along with their friend, Third, the...
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a wondrous parallel world where witches soar the skies and Ice Bears rule the frozen North, one special girl is destined to hold the fate of the universe in her hands. When Lyra Belacqua becomes the keeper of the Golden Compass, she discovers that her world and all those beyond are threatened by the secret plans of Ms. Coulter. With the help of Lord Asriel and a group of unlikely allies ready to stand at her side, Lyra embarks on an extraordinary...
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