Want to introduce children to the arctic ecosystem without letting on they’re learning? Read Laura Crawford’s In Arctic Waters. Follow the small fish in a big ocean through the food chain, all the way up to the grouchy and cocky polar bear and then finally to the indigenous humans, the Inuit’s.
Told in a “house that Jack built” rhythm, the story shares the creatures that live on the Arctic ice and swim in its chilly waters. It moves fast and it’s fun to read aloud.
Ben Hodson’s illustrations are soft and quiet and I like them that way. The colors and strokes express the Arctic’s frigid temperature so the story doesn’t have to. There’s life on the ice. There’s life below the ice!
In the back matter, you’ll learn that the walrus uses his whiskers to feel, that the beluga whale molts, and that the narwhal is called the unicorn of the sea, and much more. Each Sylvan Dell book is more than a picture book. It’s a fun learning experience.
The above review was contributed by: Susan Sales Harkins: Susan is a Software consultant and the author of several articles and books on database technologies. She and her husband, William, collaborate on children's non-fiction. Click Here to read more of Susan’s Reviews.
Ada Blackjack: A True Story Of Survival In The Arctic by Jennifer Niven
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN, EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES Not many of us have ever heard of an island that is generally barren, frozen and rocky through most of the year located in the Arctic Ocean between the East Siberian Sea and the Chukotsk Sea-Wrangel Island. In 1921, a Canadian explorer, Vihjalmur Stefansson, sent four young men, only one an actual British subject, and one Eskimo woman, Ada Blackjack, to Wrangel Island. The objective was to claim the island for...
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10-28-2004
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