From writer Robert Burleigh and illustrator Wendell Minor an award-winning and bestselling
picture book team comes a gripping climate change–themed tale of a polar bear family fighting
to survive. It is March in the cold North. The long-gone sun is rising. Silvery ice glitters.
Snow sparkles in the hazy glow. Two polar bears stand at ice edge: mother and cub. A mother
polar bear and her cub are busy searching for food when suddenly the ice they stand on breaks
away—crack! Cut adrift her cub is out of reach as the treacherous sea begins to carry him
away. In she dives! Can they return to land safely? Simply told yet dramatic and with
realistic exquisite illustrations and informative back matter with facts about polar bears
Ice Bears at Ice Edge immerses readers in one animal family’s story while also highlighting
the broader plight of endangered wildlife whose habitats are threatened by climate change.
