This book describes how the polar bear, also called Nanuk, thrives in the Arctic and explains the lessons that the Inuit people have learned from watching the creature.

Bessie and a polar bear cub named Snow Bear play on the ice, while her older brother and the mother bear watch to make sure that everyone is safe.

Virgil the penguin finds a polar bear and tries to claim it as his own, but the polar bear wants to splash with the terns, slide with the seals, twirl with all the penguins, and be called by his name--Owen.

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

Cold Paws, a lonely polar bear, always feels cold until the day he makes a new friend.

It is an unusually warm spring and the snow is melting faster than usual. Scientists have come to the North Pole to study the changes. When Lars discovers the submarine, he also discovers two baby polar bears that the scientists have rescued from an ice floe. Lars promises to take the cubs back to their parents. But can he do it?

As a little polar bear cub explores with his mother, he discovers many huge and wonderful things. Each object is bigger than the last, and the cub always asks his mother: "Is that the biggest thing in the world?" But each time his mother answers, "No." After much exploration, the cub eventually finds out that the biggest thing in the world is love.

Snowy the polar bear wants to show his mother that he loves her more than anything else in the world by making a special gift for her, but to do that, he has to sneak away every chance he gets.

Polar Bear has lost his underwear and he asks his friend, Mouse, to help him find it.

Although Snowy the polar bear asks his mother many questions, he already knows many things, including the fact that his mother loves him very much.