Child's Glacier Bay [Hardcover]

Kimberly Corral (Author), Roy Corral (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up

This firsthand account of a three-week sea kayaking journey, seen through the eyes of young travelers, introduces readers to one of Alaska's most popular and awe-inspiring marine parks.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 4-7-Told from the point of view of 13-year-old Hannah, this photo-essay documents the Corral family's 200-mile kayaking/camping trip around this remote, spectacular national park. The full-color photography is lovely, portraying the grandeur of Glacier Bay. While the text is occasionally stilted ("I wonder if the rain causes the ice to snap and pop as it trickles down the glacier's cracks, called crevasses. That's what happens when I run water over a tray of ice cubes at home"), the adventure overrides any awkwardness in the writing. Hannah, her parents, and her five-year-old brother take notice of the abundant flora and fauna (including whales, seals, bears and birds) in both the text and photographs. Like the Corrals's My Denali (Alaska Northwest, 1995), A Child's Glacier Bay is a challenge to "couch potato" families to get out and experience nature firsthand. But the book is also "cool" reading about Alaska on a hot summer's day.
Mollie Bynum, formerly at Chester Valley Elementary School, Anchorage, AK
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Gr. 4^-8. This photo-essay documents the Corral family's camping adventure in the marine park of Glacier Bay in Alaska. The three-week kayaking trip takes the family along the Alaskan coastline, with its desolate, wildly beautiful landscape and plant and animal life. Up close, the family sees whales, seals, and awe-inspiring icebergs. Roy Corral's photos are spectacular, capturing the vast, glacial beauty, as well as documenting the everyday details of roughing it in the frigid terrain. Readers learn how the family sleeps, cooks, sets up camp, and travels; the book also explains the terms and facts of scientific and biological objects and phenomena. Told conversationally from the 13-year-old daughter's point of view, the narrative takes readers right along with the family. An accessible, basic introduction to the wonders of Alaska and its ever-changing landscape (and a model example of siblings and family members working together and getting along in veritable isolation) as viewed and experienced by a real family on a challenging but rewarding expedition. Shelle Rosenfeld

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books (April 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0882405039
• ISBN-13: 978-0882405032
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,911,111 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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