Polar Bears (Animal Predators) [Library Binding]

Sandra Markle (Author)

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Library Binding: 40 pages
• Publisher: Carolrhoda Books (August 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575057301
• ISBN-13: 978-1575057309
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 11.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,956,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

SANDRA MARKLE

Sandra Markle is the author of more than 200 books for children, such as A Mother's Journey (Charlesbridge, 2006), How Many Baby Pandas (Walker, 2009), The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs (Millbrook, 2011), Butterfly Tree (Peachtree Publishing, 2011). She has won numerous awards for this work, including Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices, NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book, SB& F finalist, John Burroughs List of Nature Books for Young Readers, Junior Library Guild Selection, Orbis Pictus Recommended Book, Charlotte Zolotow Award, and MORE.
She was honoured with the title of "Best of Children's Non-Fiction" Georgia Author Of The Year award five times and was named one of 1999's Women of the Year by Women in Technology International for her contributions to science and technology.

In addition to her books, Sandra Markle has developed science specials for CNN and PBS. She is also noted for developing On-Line Expedition: Antarctica, one of the first on-line educational programs and continued adding further on-line reports from Antarctica while working on book projects in 1996 and 1999 as a grantee for the National Science Foundation's Artists and Writers Program.

Reviewers have heaped praise on Markle's books, including:
Outside and Inside Bats "The author presents a particularly felicitous accord of words and pictures in an outstanding science book for the primary grades." The Horn Book Magazine
Outside and Inside Alligators "This newest installment of the Outside and Inside series adds another fine book to a top-notch series." Bookselling This Week, a Kid's Pick of the Lists
Outside and Inside Dinosaurs It's like sitting down with a dinosaur expert who happens to be a great teacher." The Horn Book Magazine

Sandra Markle remains proudest, though, of the praise she has received in fan mail from children. She's happy to fulfill the requests of the young readers that urge her to "please write more."

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Graphic, but Good Overview, September 23, 2005

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Mindy (St. Paul, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Polar Bears (Animal Predators) (Library Binding)

The first photograph of the book is of mother and cub polar bears eating a bloody meal. The book continues to follow a polar bear as it attempts to make a seal, a walrus, and a whale a meal. Animal lovers who don't like to see animals being eaten will not enjoy this book. But it is an interesting look at polar bears, who are a predatory animal. The photographs are vivid and large. Not all of them have bloody meals shown. I thought that the photos of the polar bear cubs were adorable. Apparently, they are about the size of a soft drink can when born! One of the coolest features of the book is the "Looking Back" section at the end, where readers are invited to look more closely at the photographs throughout the book to examine details and learn more facts about polar bears. The glossary defines words that seem obvious, even to young readers. But overall, I think this book could work well with a second or third grade science student--especially boys.