Santa Claus frolicking with penguins and polar bears--do you know what's wrong with this picture? Actually, no penguin has ever lived at the North Pole, nor any polar bear at the South Pole. Using a wide range of disciplines from physics to geography to biology, award-winning science writer Elaine Scott explores some of the unique properties shared by the two ends of the Earth's axis, and other ways in which they are poles apart. Find out what makes...

Journey to the ends of the Earth! Make reading your superpower with DK's beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about life at the Polar Regions - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. North Pole, South Pole is a beautifully designed reader all about these icy environments at the ends of the Earth. The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexile's so that children...

Publisher Annotation: Enter the world of the Arctic and Antarctic, in this gorgeously illustrated book for young animal and conservation enthusiasts.

As a huge polar bear hunts seals and a walrus for food to keep itself alive, it is in turn hunted by a young human.

"A mermaid and her otter friend go on a journey to help a lost beluga whale return to the Arctic"--

Henry Worsley was a British special forces officer obsessed with polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. So at age fifty-five, Worsley bid farewell to his family and tried to walk across Antarctica alone. David Grann tells Worsley's remarkable story.

The sea animals have disappeared, and people are starving. An old couple, once great shamans, are asked to journey to the Mother of the Sea to find out what happened to the animals. But the journey is dangerous and the old woman does not know if she will be able to please the Mother of the Sea and convince her to free the animals the people of her community so desperately need. The Mother of the Sea is an important character in Inuit traditional stories...

Sophie is uninterested in writing a research report on polar bears until a polar bear named Olafur swoops her away to the Arctic, where she learns all about the playful bear's habits and habitat, from glacier mice to Northern Lights.

"The human story has always been one of perseverance-often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew of sixteen, who ventured farther north than any Europeans before and, on their third polar exploration, lost their ship off the frozen coast of Nova Zembla to unforgiving ice. The men would spend the next year fighting off ravenous polar bears, gnawing...