The Horn Book Guide

SCIENCE

Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw

Garden of the Spirit Bear: Life in the Great Northern Rainforest

40 pp. | Clarion | August, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-618-21259-0 $16.00

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Deborah Milton. This account of the endangered "garden of the bears," located on Canada's Pacific coast, discusses the spirit or Kermode bear, a subspecies of the black bear (although one in ten is white). Milton's loose watercolors are often awkward, but Patent's thoughtful text highlights the interconnectedness of this rare bear with other parts of its ecosystem, such as salmon, trees, and people. Directory. Ind.

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey