(4) PS Illustrated by Gerry Turley. A polar bear is "looking for something, but what has she lost?" A long trek through the snowy night reunites her with her lost cub, more precious than the many natural "treasures and fabulous sights" she sees along the way. Propulsive, textured mixed-media illustrations convey the mother bear's urgency and the frigid Arctic setting much more successfully than the trite rhyming text.

Reviewer: Katie Bircher

(3) PS Illustrated by Gerry Turley. It's dark and warm in the den while winter descends outside. Northern lights appear, a wolf cries, and a mama bear and two newborn cubs sleep peacefully. The spare rhyming text and illustrations (a combination of drawing and screen printing) follow the cubs through their first year and beautifully evoke the animals' relationship with the earth and with each other.

Reviewer: Nancy Sheridan