SEA BEAR A Journey for Survival
Lindsay Moore
Greenwillow Books
An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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This book would not have been possible without the work of intrepid scientists who traveled to remote study sites in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway, and Russia to collect information about polar bears in the wild. With nearly fifty years’ worth of peer-reviewed research published in books and scientific journals, we have a wealth of information available about polar bears. I’d like to thank Polar Bears International, for providing educational material about polar bears to the public in a clear and beautiful way. I would also like to thank Dr. Dale Smith, the planetarium director at Bowling Green State University, whose knowledge of polar astronomy informed my illustrations and opened my eyes to the wonders of the night sky.
Sea Bear: A Journey for Survival Copyright © 2019 by Lindsay Moore. All rights reserved. Manufactured in China. For information address HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, 195 Broadway, New York, NY 10007. www.harpercollinschildrens.com The full-color art was rendered in graphite, watercolor, drawing inks, conte crayon, and color pencils. The text type is 18-point Brandon Text Bold. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Moore, Lindsay, author, illustrator. Title: Sea bear / written and illustrated by Lindsay Moore. Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] | Summary: A polar bear waits patiently for spring when the ice breaks up, but after months of hunting, paddling, and resting on ice floes, summer ends and the bear must swim very far to find land. Includes facts about polar bears and the effect of climate change on their environment. Identifiers: LCCN 2018004241 | ISBN 9780062791283 (hardcover) Subjects: LCSH: Polar bear—Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: Polar bear—Fiction. | Bears—Fiction. | Climatic changes—Fiction. | Arctic regions—Fiction. Classification: LCC PZ10.3.M7057 Se 2019 | DDC [E]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018004241 ISBN 978-0-06-279128-3 (hardback) 19 20 21 22 23 SCP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 First Edition
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For my family. With love, L. M.
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Polar bears are patient beasts,
as patient as glaciers. We know how to hope and how to wait. I learned to be patient long ago from my polar bear mother—
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to be patient when hunting, to be patient with weather, to be patient in darkness.
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A polar bear can outwait almost anything— seals, storms, and long, sunless winters— but a bear at sea needs something to stand on.
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I watch the ice.
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