Polar Bears Book

The first non-fiction book I chose to review was Polar Bears by Gail Gibbons. The book starts off by telling the reader that polar bears and other animals live in the Arctic, a brutally cold area near the North Pole. Next, the author gives some facts about polar bears. Polar bears are the largest bears in the Ursidae family. Male polar bears may be as tall as 10 feet and weigh 750 to 1100 pounds. After the facts comes the polar bear's physical characteristics. Even though polar bears are big, they are graceful and athletic. They have an extraordinary sense of smell, vision, and hearing. Polar bears eat meat and especially like ringed seal. Springtime is when the male and female polar bears mate. In the fall, pregnant females dig a den, sleep, rest, and wait to give birth. The cubs are born in the winter and are very tiny, can not hear or see and are covered in a thin coat of fur. Their bed is their mother's fur because it is so warm. During the first month, the cubs grow four times their birth size. Two years after the cubs are born, they leave their mothers and fend for themselves. Humans used to hunt and kill polar bears but laws have been passed to prevent that so that they do not become extinct. Today, polar bears live in zoos where people can see them safely. This book is for primary, intermediate, and advanced readers. This book is an amazing factual book about polar bears. Everything a person needs to know will be in this book. Not only are the facts great but the pictures are great as well. All of the pictures are very detailed and they stick to the colder colors; blues, whites, purples because the books talks about cold climates. All of the illustrations have clear lines and shapes. I would recommend this book to anybody who has to do a report on polar bears. It is fun for children to read because of the pictures but for teenagers it has very useful information as well. It is also interesting to learn about an animal that you may not have known much about.