Polar Animals

Why does an Arctic hare have tiny ears? To conserve heat! How does a walrus feel around for food on the bottom of the sea? With its whiskers! Learn cool facts about the arctic fox, the beluga whale, the snowy owl, and more in this book.

Children will enjoy looking at the animals as the reader names them. They can listen to the rhymes and talk about the little scenes at the side. This is an ideal book for sharing.

Simple text and photographs present the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of a variety of animals living near the North and South Poles, including humpback whales, seals, polar bears, and penguins.

Discusses animals that live in the Arctic and Antarctic. Polar bears, penguins, seals, killer whales, Greenland sharks, and snowy owls all survive in below-freezing temperatures and howling, snowy storms.

For use in schools and libraries only. Bright photographs of polar bears, walruses, seals, penguins and other arctic animals playing, resting and swimming in their natural habitat are presented to beginning readers, enhanced with four pages of activities and a foil cover.

"This colorful and informative book tells children about animals that live at the Poles: a polar bear and a reindeer, an orca and a seal, an albatross and a penguin. Your child can press the buttons and listen to the sounds of real animals and birds!" --cover.

Young readers are provided with simple facts about an arctic animal and asked to use these to guess which creature is hiding behind the flaps on the next page.--

The poles are amazing places. With their stark landscapes and harsh climates, they are unlike any other environments on Earth. Yet so many different animals have found ways to make these places home. From polar bears to puffins, humpback whales to huskies, you'll marvel at the variety of life to be found at the world's extremes. Animals from all over the world star in the bright and irresistible Snapshot Picture Library series. Gorgeous photography, ranging from dramatic to laugh-out-loud funny, will engage readers of any age, while young readers will particularly delight in the lively, easy-to-read, playful text. From the friendly and familiar animals found on a farm or in your very own home to exotic or endangered species that many people may never see, the Snapshot Picture Library series is your ticket not only to other places but to other ways of seeing and thinking about the world we love and share.