Henry Carter Hull

Discusses the characteristics of the polar regions and presents examples of many polar animals and plants, describing their relationships with their habitat.

Lift your tail and splash the water! It's time to share a day up close with a narwhal. See this whale's watery home, what it eats, and how it cares for its young. This book from the series A Day in the Life: Polar Animals describes a typical day and night in the life of a narwhal. Features include a body map with labels for key aspects of the animal's body.

Santa Claus is missing, and a host of arctic animals searches for him in the snow.

Photographs and text look at how animals have adapted to survive in the polar regions, focusing on how the polar bear, ptarmigan, Arctic hare, and others use camouflage to hide from predators.

From the late-17th to the early 20th century, intrepid explorers from America and Europe risked (and sometimes lost) their lives exploring the forbidding, uncharted landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctica. What drove these men to undertake these seemingly impossible journeys? In this deeply researched book, author John Dippel makes a convincing case that dozens of polar expeditions were motivated less by courageous idealism than personal ambition...

"With a little help from his friends on the tundra, an arctic fox learns how to be a good daddy to a noisy gosling"--

Introduces the major characteristics of birds, and describes twelve types that spend at least part of the year in the Arctic, including their habitat, appearance, calls, and habits.

At the top of the world, a polar bear hunts, swims, courts, raises cubs, and worries as they go off on their own.

Sophie is uninterested in writing a research report on polar bears until a polar bear named Olafur swoops her away to the Arctic, where she learns all about the playful bear's habits and habitat, from glacier mice to Northern Lights.

An unexpected adventure with his friends and a kite convinces Penguin Blue that he is not built for flying, and that he belongs on solid ice.