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32 pp.
| Boyds
| February, 2008
|
TradeISBN 978-1-59078-461-7$16.95
(3)
K-3
After surviving the challenging early months of life, a young snowy owl journeys south in search of food during a bleak Arctic winter. This information-rich narrative relates the bird's experiences with nature's harsh realities in a straightforward but poetic style. Detailed watercolor and pencil illustrations showing the changing scenery capably underscore the vast distance traveled. An author's note gives more information.
32 pp.
| Boyds
| March, 2003
|
TradeISBN 1-59078-010-8$$16.95
(3)
K-3
Each spring thousands of caribou journey north across the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to the Arctic coast to bear their young. Double-page spreads rendered in watercolor and pencil successfully capture both the climate and expansive terrain, while Hiscock's narrative presents an informative story of migration. Appended notes provide further information.
32 pp.
| Boyds
| January, 2001
|
TradeISBN 1-56397-848-2$$15.95
(4)
1-3
Set in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, this fictionalized account concerns an actual hunting partnership that occasionally occurs between a coyote and a badger. Motivated by hunger, the two animals join forces to hunt prairie dogs and other small animals, as Anasazi lore also records. Realistic details support this clean narration, as does the artwork. The ending peters out, though, and as a whole this lacks the tension of a story.