Explore Your World Animals Of The Cold

What lives on and under snow and ice? Quite a lot, actually. This book takes readers over and under the polar ice caps where specially adapted animals and birds live. It covers a variety of wildlife and how they interact: Land animals: polar bears, arctic foxes, muskox Sea mammals: seals, walruses, whales Birds: penguins, arctic owls, albatrosses Marine life: fish and plankton. About the series: Explore Your World -- a captivating interactive series for young explorers. This new series covers a wide variety of science, nature and technology topics in an innovative and interactive way. The books make use of a profusion of engaging line drawings and colorful illustrations along with delightful pullouts, pop-ups, fold-outs, transparency overlays, reveal wheels, books-within-books and more. Each page offers a surprise for young, curious readers. Lively captions featuring non-technical explanations accompany all the illustrations. Editorial Reviews Review [review of Explore Your World series] Incredible series... chock full of information -- but fun, too, with non-technical jargon. (Pamela Fieber Calgary Herald 2007-01-07) Firefly earns high marks for its hands-on Explore Your World series. (Sharon Wootton The Herald (Everett WA) 2006-12-16) Rarely do you happen across books with such wide appeal.... Jam-packed with facts relevant to [readers'] immediate lives and curiosities. For both young and old these books pack a wallop of 'coolness' value! ... The reader feels a sense of discovery as each book is explored in depth. The illustrations are bright, bold and colourful. (Kelley McGuire Resource Links, vo. 12, no. 4) Incredible series... chock full of information -- but fun, too, with non-technical jargon. (Pamela Fieber, CanWest News Service Montreal Gazette 2007-02-10) About the Author Author Val̩rie Videau, illustrators Olivier Latyk and Anne Eydoux, and translator Al Daigen live in France.