Ice Bear In the Steps of the Polar Bear Book

The life of a polar bear, told through a series of fun facts and illustrations. You can find this book as a part of the Nature Storybooks Collection, and whilst it does an excellent job of piecing together some wonderful polar bear facts to help imagine what being a polar bear is like, the illustrations are not very engaging or appealing which makes it hard to keep small readers interested.

Each page is filled with an entire illustration and a small piece of text detailing something about these bears, from why they look white, how they retain heat in such a cold environment, to what they eat and how many cubs they have. This isn't told in the usual rhyming lilt of a standard picture book, but does still flow as a story so makes learning quite easy for young readers.

The illustrations are almost a little blurry, making it difficult to enjoy the detail of the animals - it's also quite difficult to focus on the illustrations for too long because they're quite flat and unappealing; it's like looking at the TV without your glasses on if you're old like me! Compared to similar educational picture books of this nature, it's a little disappointing.

Despite this, a good educational text with the inclusion of a small section about global warming and how to protect the bears at the very end - an important piece to include for young readers. Sadly just disappointing illustrations.

ARC provided free from the publishers in exchange for an honest review.