Color photographs and text examine the different types of animals who live in the arctic regions of the world and how they survive under the hostile conditions encountered there.
A description of Inuit culture accompanies a collection of eighteen Inuit folktales from an ancient oral tradition in which animals could take human form and in which magic usually had a part.
Examines over a dozen different types of snow and snowy conditions through the vocabulary of the Inuit people of Alaska. Discusses the physical properties and formation of the snow and how it affects the plants, animals, and people of the Arctic.
Presents illustrated retellings of ten folk and fairy tales from northern hemisphere countries that border on or contain frozen tundra, snowy mountains, dense wilderness, and ice fields.