With a somewhat fiction feel, this book entices the reader with illustrations and many facts about polar bears and their cubs. Students will learn about these fascinating creatures and also about the future of the Arctic and its inhabitants.
n. vast treeless plain near the Arctic Circle where the subsoil is permanently frozen "There are cold, rockly islands and stretches of tundra where no trees grow."
n. a small, short-tailed, thickset rodent "On land, a polar bear might catch a tiny lemming."
n. an insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals "Like a snug blanket, this blubber keeps in the heat of the bear's body."