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Alaska's Three Bears (Discoveries in Palaeontology)

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This is another book we read to our students at our summer reading program. They loved it. They thought the drawings were terrific, and especially liked the borders on each page. They enjoyed learning more about bears, and they thought it was a neat twist on the original story of the three bears. I highly recommend this book to any teacher who wants to do a unit on bears - it's a book that successfully merges entertainment and educaational components.

I like this book because it is full of interesting facts about bears.I also like your visit and how they tell you how tall they are. My favorite prat is when the the brown baer went home to his forest.Even thoe he was the smallest.I even found out some new info like Blak bears just eat the heads of the fish because they have to eat a surtin amount of fat.

I learned all about bears. This is a way cool book. One of my all time favorites! Children's author Jerry Pallotta

I liked Alaska's Three Bears beacause it taught me a lot about Alaska's Three Bears. Thanks for coming to Ashley River.

I really enjoyed the book ALASKA'S THREE BEARS. I learned that all the bears live and eat different food and live in different places. I liked your visit. I hope you will come again!

I really liked this book because it told me about bears. I think that she did a good job and she is an excellent writer.

I liked the way she tells how the bears survive and how tall they are.I liked your visit to Ashley River.

Shelley Gill takes a twist on the Goldilocks story with this charming little book that tells a story while giving a little lesson on the habitats and ways of the polar, grizzly, and black bear who are trying to find homes that are "just right". There is no Goldilocks, but lots of fun facts and knowledge about Alaska and its creatures. The illustrations are lively and colorful and the information is wonderful.

We picked this book up in the Anchorage airport gift shop in 2001 on our way to visit our Alaskan relatives in Nome. It is a delightful and very informative book about bears for both adults and children, although the focus is on children.

This is not the traditional Three Bears story. Alaska's Three Bears is about the three kinds of bears one might find in that great state and North America: the grizzly, the polar bear and the black bear. The opening sentence begins, "Once upon a time...", but in an box below the story line on every page is valuable information about bears in general and each of the three species of bear in particular.

The first information paragraph states: "There are three species of bear in North America. Grizzlies used to roam from Ohio to California, now the big brown bears have been driven north onto the last pieces of remote land. Black bear can still be found in forests throughout the U.S. but only in Alaska and Canada can you find all three bears; the grizzly, polar bear and black bear, living in the wilderness we call bear country." Did you know all that?

The book tells how each bear chose the place where he wanted to live. The polar bear liked the cold, snow and ice so he stayed in the far north. The grizzly liked the frolicking river with its salmon, the roots he could dig and animals he could chase. The little black bear finally chose the forest with its bug-filled stumps and places to hide. In the end, no matter how far each roamed, they could always find their way back home.

At the back of the book is a Teacher Resource Guide with suggestions on how to use the book. There's a page of dos and don'ts for traveling about in bear country, and also a lovely page of colorful covers of other titles available from Paws IV published by Seattle's Sasquatch Press.
Published in 1992, this book remains a popular one for youngsters of all ages. Though far from being a youngster, I find myself taking it off the bookshelf from time to time to reread the valuable information it contains and to enjoy the magnificent illustrations by Shelley Gill.

Carolyn Rowe Hill

Thanks for coming to our school. You're really cool.I like all your books but I think I like Alaska's Three Bears the best. That's pretty cool how you and your doughter went swimming with the biggest animal in the ocean. You know that's really weird how they're were so many bears in so many places but now there only in two places, and one is were you live. So how many adventures have you been on. I like the one you told us when you were going home and you came upon three wolves and you weren't looking where you were going so you fell off a cliff.You know you could write a book about it. Thanks again for coming to our school.