North The Amazing Story of Arctic Migration

Nature is enormous and extraordinary and the magnificent illustrations in this stirring picture book deliver that message with a wondrous whoosh. Put one paw in front of the other with a polar bear in the vast snowy expanse and against the threatening forces of nature. Swim with the gray whale from the blue waters of Mexico past Los Angeles and San Francisco and on to the Arctic Circle. That's a journey of five thousand miles and that's just half of what the tern will fly. Snow geese, godwits, caribou, the walrus, and schools of herring are all determined to return to the world of the north where summer is arriving and nature's heartbeat is thrumming. There's an absolutely magical quality to the journey and the soft illustrations that invite us in. Fabulous. Ages 5 and up 56 pages