Polar Animals
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- Board Books: Durable titles on sturdy pages designed for little hands that introduce polar animals and simple concepts.
- Picture Books: A selection of picture books for all ages with different polar animals.
- World Language Materials: A selection of picture books for all ages in various languages.
- Children’s Nonfiction: A selection of titles exploring the polar regions and animals designed for younger readers
- DVDs and Blu-rays: A selection of DVDs related to learning your numbers. Many titles are based on picture books.
- eContent: Electronic books, audiobooks, free streaming videos, and similar resources related to numbers and counting.
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Polar Animals by Animal Planet
With more than 200 gorgeous animal photos of penguins, polar bears, sea lions, walruses, reindeer and others, Animal Planet Polar Animals is a fun, habitat-by-habitat guide that provides kids in the first years of schooling with the perfect bite-sized view of their favorite animals living in both polar climates. Arranged thematically with focus on animal behavior and family relationships, young readers will explore sections about animal bodies, baby animals, food, play time, conservation, and more. Special book features designed for this age group include Quick Bites sidebars with cool animal facts, simple infographics, and illustrated maps of the coldest places on Earth.
White Animals by Teddy Borth
White is useful for animals living in snowy areas. Polar bears, Arctic wolfs, and snowy owls all use white to blend in with the snow. White Animals will help readers understand that colors in nature are not just for beauty, but sometimes have more important purposes. Included in this title is a color wheel showing primary and secondary colors and their relationships. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Arctic Freeze by Kristin Earhart
The air might be freezing, but the race is heating up! Dev can’t stop thinking about how much he’d disappointed his dad by signing up for The Wild Life. But to win a race through the frozen Arctic tundra, where animals are ferocious and nature is extreme, the red team needs everyone to give it their all…even Dev! And if he doesn’t, his new friends may be giving him the cold shoulder… Each chapter in this action-packed adventure series is bursting with totally true facts about wild and wonderful creatures, dangerous habitats, maps, and more!
Frozen Worlds by Caryn Jenner
Explore arctic environments, polar landscapes, animals, and people in and around the North and South Poles. Featuring polar bears, icebergs, reindeer, penguins, sea life, and more, Frozen Worlds allows young readers to travel to Earth’s coldest places. Perfect for 3-5 year olds learning to read, Level 1 titles contain short, simple sentences with an emphasis on frequently used words. Stunning photographic images with labels provide visual clues to introduce and reinforce vocabulary.
Sweetest Kulu by Celina Kalluk
A lyrical lullaby imbued with traditional Inuit beliefs This bedtime poem, written by internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer Celina Kalluk, describes the gifts bestowed upon a newborn baby by all the animals of the Arctic. Lyrically and lovingly written, this visually stunning book is infused with the Inuit values of love and respect for the land and its animal inhabitants.
Polar Bears and the Arctic by Mary Pope Osborne
The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better. Track the facts with Jack and Annie!! When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #16: Polar Bears Past Bedtime, they had lots of questions. Why is the Arctic so cold? What did the first people of the Artic eat? How do polar bears cross thin ice? What other animals live in the Arctic? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts. Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discovered in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures. And teachers can use Fact Trackers alongside their Magic Tree House fiction companions to meet common core text pairing needs. Did you know that there’s a Magic Tree House book for every kid? Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure Fact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventures Have more fun with Jack and Annie at MagicTreeHouse.com!
Kanopy for Kids
Set in the vast snow kingdom at the top of the world, ARCTIC TALE is a real life adventure from the people who brought you March Of The Penguins. Join narrator Queen Latifah as she follows two very different arctic creatures, Nanu, the polar bear cub and Seela, the walrus pup, through exciting and harrowing struggles for survival. Armed only with their natural instincts and mothers’ guidance, these inspiring animals face countless trials and challenges in a beautiful icebound world that is rapidly melting beneath them.
At the very northern edge of North America is Ellesmere Island, where the unforgiving Arctic winds tear through the tundra, dipping temperatures to 40 below zero. Discover the White Wolf, one of the most hardened predators on the planet in the Ellesmere’s unforgiving ice and snow. In a fight for survival, these roaming hunters must travel far from the den to feed their cubs putting them at risk.
One of Monkey’s favorite snow activities is to build snow monkeys an activity Polar bear was happy to participate in. He was even happier to play in Monkey’s favorite game “Monkey See Monkey Do”! With Polar bear as their guide, Monkey and the children learn how to rock from side to side, how to walk on all four and how to stand on their hind feet while swinging their arms.
Terrestrial Mammals in the Changing Arctic
Now that Arctic sea ice is retreating, what will become of the polar bear? Will it survive and, if so, in what numbers? Learn how changes to the ecosystem are affecting the polar bears and the other remarkable animals that call the Arctic home, from the lemming to the Arctic fox.
