The Glaciers Are Melting!

by Donna Love, Shennen Bersani

Overview

Chicken Little may have thought the sky was falling but Peter Pika is sure the glaciers are melting and is off to talk to the Mountain Monarch about it. Joined along the way by friends Tammy Ptarmigan, Sally Squirrel, Mandy Marmot, and Harry Hare, they all wonder what will happen to them if the glaciers melt. Where will they live, how will they survive? When Wiley Wolverine tries to trick them, can the Mountain Monarch save them? More importantly, can the Mountain Monarch stop the glaciers from melting?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607181460
Publisher:	Arbordale Publishing
Publication date:	02/10/2011
Series:	The Glaciers Are Melting! , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Lexile:	AD510L (what's this?)
File size:	16 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 9 Years

About the Author

Award-winning author Donna Love brings nature to life for children through her books: The Glaciers are Melting!; Henry the Impatient Heron; Loons, Diving Birds of the North; Awesome Ospreys, Fishing Birds of the World; Animals Count in Grand Canyon National Park; and The Totally Out There Guide to Glacier National Park. Donna lives in Montana, where her husband is a district ranger on the Lolo National Forest. They have three grown children, and one granddaughter.

Award-winning children’s book illustrator Shennen Bersani has two million copies of her illustrated books cherished and read by families throughout the world. She has been a freelance illustrator since 1989. She works primarily with colored pencils, sometimes using a mixed-media technique of colored pencils, crayon, and paint. Her art delivers a unique blend of realism, heartfelt emotion, love of nature, and life lessons for children of all ages. In addition to Sea Slime: It’s Eeuwy, Gooey and Under the Sea; The Shape Families Babies; Animal Partners; Shark Baby; Home in the Cave; The Glaciers are Melting!, and Astro: The Steller Sea Lion for Sylvan Dell, Shennen has illustrated a number of best-selling books, including, Snakes: Long, Longer, Longest; Sharks: Big, Bigger, Biggest; Ocean Counting: Odd Numbers; Icky Bug Shapes; and My Sister, Alicia May. Shennen lives with her family near Boston.

Editorial Reviews

PreS-Gr 1—A crew of mountain-dwelling critters are all aflutter about glacial melt. Peter Pika panics when he's hit by a drop of water and goes to seek the wisdom of Mountain Monarch, taking with him Harry Hare, Mandy Marmot, Sally Squirrel, and Tammy Ptarmigan. Along the way, they encounter Wiley Wolverine, who attempts to lure them into his lair. A neat idea for broaching the subject of environmental protection with the younger crowd, the book hints about the consequences of glacial melting for each animal in a light, chatty tone rather than hammering kids over the head with gloom-and-doom facts. The story concludes with Mountain Monarch lamenting the fact that the animals number too few to make a difference, and Peter Pika asks, "Then who?" Turn the page, and the answer to that question awaits readers via several spreads of useful information about glacial melting and environmental protection. The book does suffer a bit from an inconsistent quality in Bersani's illustrations. The detailing of the animals' fur and feathers is respectable, but the creatures themselves are static figures that sometimes appear to have just been dropped into the scenery. That said, the book serves a great purpose in a largely successful way.—Alyson Low, Fayetteville Public Library, AR

School Library Journal

"A neat idea for broaching the subject of environmental protection with the younger crowd, the book hints about the consequences of glacial melting for each animal in a light, chatty tone rather than hammering kids over the head with gloom-and-doom facts. - School Library Journal

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