Arctic

by Wayne Lynch

Overview

There's more to the Artic than meets the eye! The Arctic is known as a cold, snowy place, but it's actually full of surprises. Exotic wildflowers, desert-dry soil, a midnight sun, and dozens of fascinating animals create a rich and diverse ecosystem. The Arctic includes important information on the ice-covered Arctic Ocean and the effects of global warming on plants and animals. Full-bleed photos and smaller insets brilliantly capture the beauty of the landscape and wildlife.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781559719612
Publisher:	Cooper Square Publishing Llc
Publication date:	04/01/2007
Series:	Our Wild World
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	7.89(w) x 9.82(h) x 0.22(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

Editorial Reviews

Gr 5-9 - Lynch sprinkles his readable text with personal experiences: being chased by an irate mother walrus, trying to rescue loon eggs from rising water, watching musk oxen paw through the snow for dried grasses. His enthusiasm seeps into his informative text, adding immediacy to his writing. He reduces the broad Arctic expanse to chapters of various habitats, such as the tundra, the High Arctic, and the Low Arctic. He is brief and pertinent, and the text has captioned color photos, sidebars, and eco-fact boxes. (Purists might carp at his stating that the polar bear is "the largest meat-eating animal on Earth," considering some killer whales prefer a diet of red meat instead of fish, but this is a minor point.) No further-reading suggestions are provided, but there is a hefty list of Web sites. More tightly focused than, say, Ann Love's The Kids Book of the Far North(Kids Can, 2000), which leans heavily into the human presence in these latitudes, or David Rootes's The Arctic(Lerner, 1996), Lynch's book opens a nice-size window into a diverse and interactive ecosystem.-Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY

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