Great books to read!
Over in the Arctic:
Where the Cold Winds Blow
By Marianne Berkes and Jill Dubin
Arctic Tale: Official Children's
Picture Book to the Major
Motion Picture
‘Arctic animals
by Rebecca Baines, Donnali Fifield,
are amazing!
Adam Ravetch
Q
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Quiz!
How much do you already know
about The Arctic? Find out
below before you have a read
through Spark, then see what
you know at the end!
They have
‘"An Arctic Tale"
learned to live
follows the lives
where it is very
of Nanu, a brave
cold and the
polar bear cub,
Questions
6. What is the thick, fatty
11. Why is The Arctic
nights are very
and Seela, a
1. What is a member of
layer some polar animals
known as ‘The Land of the
long! Children
curious young
the Inuit people called?
develop to keep warm
Midnight Sun’?
can learn about these marvellous creatures
walrus, as they
while they count, clap and sing to the rhythm
grow and learn
2. What is the Inuit word
of the whimsical children's tune, 'Over in the
how to survive in
for ‘home’?
Meadow'. Hidden on each page are other
the frozen tundra
called?
12. The Arctic Circle
7. What are the big ships
includes areas of several
that Inuits use to hunt
countries, what are they?
of the Arctic Circle. They have been born into
3. The Arctic Ocean is
a changing world as arctic temperatures rise
how many times bigger
year after year and challenge their way of life.
than the Mediterranean
8. What does the word
By Wade Cooper
Although Nanu lives in a white ice kingdom
Sea?
‘tundra’ mean in Russian?
‘Could you live in the
- and Seela, a blue ocean world - their paths
snow, on the ice, sharp
cross in a quest to overcome depleting
4. How many species of
9. How long can a Giant
and bright? Would
resources and longer summers. Through
flowering plant are there
Isopod live without food?
you shiver? Would you
stunning, close-up photography and a
in the Arctic?
shake? Do you love the
triumphant story, the picture book adaptation
colour white? Bundle
and junior novelization of the 2007 film tells
up and come with us
the amazing story of how basic instincts prevail
and then you'll understand more about the
- even on the most desolate places on earth.’
species for children to find.’
Polar Animals
animals who love this frozen land.’
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whales?
13. How fast can a
reindeer run?
14. What is a caribou?
15. What is an Inuksuk?
10. What is the narwhal’s
5. What is ‘tundra’?
nickname?
Click on a question to jump to the page where
you will be able to find an answer to the question!
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