The Arctic

Featuring miles of ice fields, glaciers as large as a ten-story building, vast snow fields, lethal blizzards, desert-dry soil, and bone-chilling cold, the Arctic is one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. Nevertheless, it is also provides an amazing ecosystem that features ground-hugging plants, evergreen trees, rock-climbing puffins, fierce birds of prey, polar bears, walruses, muskoxen, and more. Author Wayne Lynch's informative and thoroughly 'kid friendly' text is beautifully and expertly illustrated by his color photography throughout. Part of NorthWord's 'Our Wild World Ecosystems' series, "The Arctic" features basic and introductory information on the effects of global warming on arctic plants and animals. Also available in a hardcover edition, "The Arctic" is a welcome and recommended addition to school and community libraries. The other two very highly recommended titles in this outstanding series by Wayne Lynch include "Prairie Grasslands" and "Rocky Mountains".