The Last Polar Bear

A beautiful book, lovely story, dreamy illustrations and an important environmental message told through story. A complete package.

This is a wonderful book with a great message of environmental conservation. The illustrations are both cute, and therefore engaging for younger readers, but also authentic and educational. Woven throughout the story are factoids about the Arctic and its wildlife, the Inuit people, and climate change, which helps this book to serve as both a compelling storybook and a non-fiction text. The story itself has a magical, folklore-esque feeling and instructs readers both in the life of the Inuit characters and the saga of the nearly-extinct polar bears, plus gives a nod to the storytelling style of the first peoples of the Pacific Northwest. This is one of Jean Craighead George's last books and I think one of her best.

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