"It is March in the cold North. The long-gone sun is rising. Silvery ice glitters. Snow sparkles in the hazy glow. Two polar bears stand at ice edge: mother and cub. A mother polar bear and her cub are busy searching for food when suddenly, the ice they stand on breaks away-crack! Cut adrift, her cub is out of reach as the treacherous sea beings to carry him away. In she dives! Can they return to land safely? Simply told yet dramatic, and with realistic,...

George the polar bear, unhappy living in a city, sets out to find where he belongs but the jungle, a mountain, the desert, and even the sea feel uncomfortable.

Young Waluk is all alone. His mother has abandoned him, as is the way of polar bears, and now he must fend for himself. But he doesn't know much about the world—and unfortunately, his Arctic world is changing quickly. The ice is melting, and food is hard to find. Luckily, Waluk meets Manitok, a wise old bear with missing teeth and a bad sense of smell. Manitok knows many survival tricks, and he teaches Waluk about seals, foxes, changing seasons,...

"Two young grizzly bears go on a very long swim, far from their usual home in the Great Bear Rainforest. They crunch tart red cranberries in the bog then dig for crabs on the beach. They wander through backyards and feast on plums. Then they sniff something even more delicious--mmm, barbecued salmon. But a village full of people is no place for grizzly bears, no matter how sweet the plums or how tasty that salmon smells. Time for a helicopter ride...

"Twelve-year-old twins Ashley and Ryan are tested to the extreme when faced with a powerful avalanche while skiing in Wyoming's Grand Teton mountains. Includes survival tips from the National Avalanche Center and U.S. Forest Service"--Title verso page.

Eleven-year-old Buck Bray travels to Denali National Park to shoot a new kids' wilderness show, and with the cameraman's daughter, they work to solve the mystery of two missing grizzly cubs.

From a Hans Christian Andersen award-winning illustrator comes a moving and imaginative story of four polar bears searching for a new home. One evening, Papa Bear announces, "we are moving tomorrow." His family can longer live in their Arctic home: there are no more seals to catch, and too few fish. The next morning, they set off, in search of more promising places. From one of the world's greatest illustrators, Hans Christian Andersen award...