Presents a collection of autobiographical essays about the author's life in northern Alaska. Topics include Kanter's appreciation for his young daughter's understanding of language, meditations on the grandeur and severity of nature, and lamentations of a wilderness that is rapidly disappearing. Includes photographs.
Photographs and text describe some of the young animals that are found in the frigid Arctic regions, including moose, foxes, walrus, porcupines, reindeer, and whales.
Introduces the polar bear and other animals that the Inuit sometimes hunt and sometimes just watch, in a counting book that serves as an introduction to the Arctic and the Inuit way of life.
An experiment turns dangerous when a team of scientists becomes trapped on an Arctic icefield where sixty powerful explosives, all set to detonate at midnight, are planted.
Provides even the youngest readers with information about Earth, the changes in climate and its effects on the poles, and what the readers can do to help preserve our planet.
A counting book in rhyme presents various Arctic animals and their offspring, from a mother polar bear and her "little cub one" to an old father wolf and his "little pups ten." Includes related facts and activities.
