Learn about polar bear bodies, habits, and habitats. Polar bears are enormous, wild, beautiful creatures. Inhabitants of the Arctic, they live in an alien world of freezing temperatures, snow, and ice. Yet they have the same body temperature as our own. They are able to keep warm because of their enormous size and their abundant fat and fur, which insulate and protect them. A gorgeously illustrated nonfiction book about polar bears, this is both...

Join Jack and Annie to find the facts behind the fiction on polar bears and the Arctic.

Describes how the polar bear, also called Nanuk, thrives in the Arctic and explains the lessons that the Inuit people have learned from watching the creature. Huge, magnificent, and solitary, a polar bear moves through the frozen Arctic. Powerful hunter, tireless swimmer, tender mother, gentle playmate, she is superbly adapted for surviving, even thriving, in this harsh and icy climate. Written in poetic language interspersed with fascinating facts,...

"Why don't polar bears hibernate? Find out the answer and more about the life stages of polar bears in this fascinating book. Captivating photographs support the text and give readers a deeper understanding of a polar bear's life cycle. A table of contents, a glossary, sidebars, informative captions, critical-thinking questions, sources for further research, and an index are included to increase comprehension"--Publisher's website.

The true story of three-month-old polar bears who were orphaned in Alaska and then brought to a new home at the San Diego Zoo.