Here Is the Arctic Winter (Web of Life) With lyrical text and glowing paintings that capture this mystically beautiful environment with stunning realism, this unusual book fascinates and inspires children of all ages. There are only a few
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| Title | : | Here Is the Arctic Winter (Web of Life) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.57 (582 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0977753905 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 32 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2007-06-21 |
| Genre | : |
The Arctic winter is cold, snowy, and dark. The barren landscape is covered by a layer of snow that stretches to the horizon, with nothing to disrupt it but jagged rocks. There are only a few plants and no sunlight. And yet, there are animals hardy enough to survive this bleak environment: the arctic wolf, hare, cod, and fox; the snowy owl, polar bear, ringed seal, and Peary caribou, all inextricably linked together in the chain of life. With lyrical text and glowing paintings that capture this mystically beautiful environment with stunning realism, this unusual book fascinates and inspires children of all ages.
Editorial : From Publishers Weekly This unusual cumulative book begins with a stark, black-edged painting of the vast, moonlit, arctic landscape: "Here is the sky / that is dark day and night, / where the sun does not rise / in this cold world of white: / Here is the Arctic winter." Each turn of the page highlights another arctic creature, generally named in the order it appears on the food chain--the wolves "who howl at the sky," the caribou "that flee from the wolves," and so on. A useful back page contains outlines of each animal and the address of the National Audubon Society's Arctic Program. Robinson's picture book debut impresses at the outset, with a striking jacket illustration of a lone polar bear stalking across a midnight-dark snowscape--inside are even more breathtaking scenes populated with dazzling animals. Dunphy's opening lines contain a lyrical simplicity and elegance that is unfortunately not consistently maintained. The format seems to constrain the text in ways that sometimes
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