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Posted: May 22 2010 at 1:12am | IP Logged Quote Erin
Sharing some Antarctica/Arctic picture books we've enjoyed.

Fun Titles
Perky Little Penguins - Troy Mitten
Sydney of the Antartic - Coral Tulloch
The Last Polar Bears- Harry Horse
Emily and Alfie - Meredith Hooper

Informative but Fun
Little Penguin and His Dad - Matt Wolf
The Polar Bear's Gift - Jeanne Bushey
Penguins, Penguins Everywhere! _-Bob Barner
Here is Antartica - Madeline Dunphy

Long Picture Books
Icetrap! Shackleton's Incredible Expedition - Meredith Hooper
Tom crean's Rabbit - a True Story from Scott's last Voyage - Meredith Hooper

Non-Fiction
Awesome Creatures of the Icy Seas - Micheal Bright
The Penguin - Sabrina Crewe
Emperors of the Ice: the Emperor Penguins of the Antarctic - Kim Westerskov
Pole to Pole - Pamela Freeman
If You Were a Penguin - Wendell and Florence Minor


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Posted: May 22 2010 at 9:00am | IP Logged Quote SeaStar
Great list! This is a tough topic to find good books to read.
Greetings from Antartica is a sort of travelogue/picture book that we have enjoyed.


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Posted: May 22 2010 at 10:25am | IP Logged Quote LucyP
A "fun title" we have is Bedtime for Little Bears by David Bedford (Little Tiger Press) - our close friends know the author.

A bit more "realistic" is Nanu, Penguin Chick by Theresa Radcliffe ( Puffin)

Arctic Song by Miriam Moss (Myriad Books)

Ice Bear by Nicola Davies (Walker Nature Story Books) - this is non-fiction, but lyrical and beautifully illustrated.
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Posted: May 24 2010 at 10:42am | IP Logged Quote CandaceC
We just learned about Antarctica last week and 2 that we enjoyed that I don't see on your lists are:

Something to Tell the Grandcows (funny picture book)
Hooray for Antarctica! (factual, good pictures)



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Posted: Jan 19 2011 at 3:45pm | IP Logged Quote Mimip
Since we are in the midst of this topic and I always search to find threads to get books, I thought I would add a title that is stealing the show here:

Poles Apart: Why Penguins and Polar bears will never be Neighbors: This is a very informative book about the differences between the two poles. Great pictures too. Says for ages 10 and up but I think it's a great read aloud.





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My favorite Arctic books are:
The Big Caribou Herd: Life in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Ookpik: The Travels of a Snowy Owl

These are good for 7 and up, or younger children who can enjoy a fair amount of text. The pictures are fantastic nature studies of the northern habitats and animals done in watercolor and pencil or pen (I'm not an artist!).

My children have also enjoyed Tikta'Liktak: An Inuit-Eskimo Legend. This book is a fairly short read-aloud or can be read by about 6-8 and up. It recounts the story of an Eskimo who finds himself adrift on a small sheet of ice with a polar bear! All the excitement of a survival story plus a look at how the Inuit have traditionally survived in their difficult environment. The book has a lot of wonderful black-beige-cream illustrations that have a sort of woodcut look.

ETA: One more I almost forgot: Night of the Pufflings This documentary book is set in Iceland and describes the annual efforts of Icelandic children to help baby puffins who have become stranded on the island find their way to the sea. The pictures are photographs. As a read-aloud, ages 4 and up. A fair bit of text.

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Posted: Jan 19 2011 at 8:00pm | IP Logged Quote MaryM
Mimip wrote:

Poles Apart: Why Penguins and Polar bears will never be Neighbors: This is a very informative book about the differences between the two poles.


This sounds like it might be a really good one for the Journey North study - as there are usually polar region locations and it would be interesting for students to really know the difference between the poles.


I'll add a poetry book:
Antarctic Antics

I know I have some others but will have to search for those titles.

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Posted: Jan 20 2011 at 6:26am | IP Logged Quote mamaslearning
This is very timely. We are going to be doing a short study of Antarctica as part of our continent studies next week.



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