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George, Jean Craighead

The Last Polar Bear

32 pp. | HarperCollins/Geringer | October, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-124067-6 $16.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-06-124068-3 $17.89
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Wendell Minor. Nanuq, an adult polar bear, visits an Arctic village. Young Tigluk hears her call to follow, so he and his grandmother travel to rescue Nanuq's cub from a shrinking ice floe. George, rather manipulatively, pulls out all the stops here, making it impossible not to feel an emotional response to devastating effects of global warming. Minor's illustrations portray an irresistibly adorable cub doomed by the effects of climate change.
Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

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