Polar Regions category: 485 books
The Lost Men
The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
The untold story of the last odyssey of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration
Sir Ernest Shackletons 1914 Antarctic endeavor is legend, but for sheer heroism and tragic nobility, nothing compares to the saga of the Ross Sea party. This crew of explorers landed on the opposite side of Antarctica...
Ice Diaries
An Antarctic Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize and one of the Guardian’s Best Books of 2016.
Drawn to understand what we might lose in a world without ice, acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Jean McNeil spent four months on the world’s most enigmatic continent — Antarctica....
Oil and Ice
A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynas ty
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
"Peter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevant historical narrative...A terrific read."
-Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In The Heart of the Sea
In 1871, America's last fleet of whaling ships was destroyed in an arctic ice storm. Miraculously, 1,218 men, women and children survived,...
by André Marois
Language: French
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Québec, 2048. Tous les soirs, des milliards de moustiques assoiffés de sang envahissent le ciel, tuant les habitants qui s'aventurent à l'extérieur. À cette menace s'ajoute celle d'un gouvernement qui veut contrôler la population. Des drones armés survole le territoire pendant le jour et un...
by Joan Dee Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Lodin is a young snowy owl fledgling born in the Arctic tundra. Cheerfully yet defiantly he sets out alone on top of the world to find the legendary Father North. Although, hopes vanish as winter moves across the land. Predators are fierce and food becomes scarce, while young Snowy Lodin grows...
by Mary Pope Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!
Jack and Annie arrive on the one continent they haven’t visited before: Antarctica! What can they hope to learn about happiness in such a barren place? Only the...
by Cullen Alan Trussell
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Building off of the popularity of social media, the story of Palaki the penguin relates to the reader through his own blog posts. Unfortunately, Palaki swims off in the wrong direction and ends up in a climate that is far too warm for a penguin. Luckily, a group of humans at the Wellington Zoo are...
P is For Penguins Happy Flappy Feet
Penguins Childrens Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2014
Picture books featuring wild animals help develop a child's imagination in a plethora of meaningful ways. First, the shapes and colors featured in the books will spark the child's creative spirit and potentially generate a desire to draw similar figures. Second, the picture books featuring wild creatures...
by Jeannie Meekins
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
McMurdo Dry Valleys, in Antarctica, is one of the world’s cruelest deserts. You may think that a desert is a hot, dry place, full of sand. Science defines a desert as a place that has less than 10 inches (254 millimetres) of rainfall per year. Antarctica has none.
Even if the snow that falls on...
by Lisa E. Jobe
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 3, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 3, 2016
Conoscere l'Artico attraverso l'opera d'arte foto fantasia di Lisa E. Jobe. I bambini potranno aggiungere un nuovo elemento al paesaggio congelato con il turno di ogni pagina. Contenente immagini e parole del vocabolario solo, questo libro è perfetto per il bambino in casa.
Maya & Filippo Visit a Glacier
Children's Books about the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Take Your Children on an Adventure!
”Maya & Filippo Visit a Glacier” is a fine example of educational adventure-writing for children and is highly recommended. Rating: 5.0 stars from Readers’ Favorite Reviews.
This entertaining and educational picture book features two little...
Maya & Filippo Look for Whales
Kids' Book about Marine Animals
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Take Your Children on an Adventure! Winner of the 2014 International Readers' Favorite Book Award Contest.
This entertaining and educational picture book features two little travelers - Maya and Filippo - who love to explore the world.
˃˃˃ Would you like your children to learn...
Alone in Antarctica
The First Woman to Ski Solo Across the Southern Ice
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
A memoir of a challenging adventure that “pulls us in and makes us feel as though we are with her, at the freezing-cold bottom of the world” (Booklist).
In the whirling noise of our technological age, we are seemingly never alone, never away from the barrage of electronic data and information....
Alaska Traveler
Dispatches from America's Last Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Dana Stabenow was born in Alaska when it was a territory, grew up on and around fishing boats, worked for an air taxi service, a cannery, and later, on the oilfields of the North Slope. Today, she's an Edgar-award winning mystery writer with over 25 Alaska-based novels to her credit. Stabenow knows...