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The Arctic is more than ice and snow. As the seasons change and winter turns to spring, birds return, seals leap and splash, and polar bears are born. Childlike, rhythmic text invites us to greet the animals that come with the turn of seasons-- Hello, birds! Hello, seals! Hello, cubs! --while gorgeous illustrations reveal the wondrous creatures and colors of this stirring northern land.
Theodore Taylor, the author of many bestselling novels for teens, combines talents with visionary artist Margaret Chodos-Irvine in an exhilarating celebration of the wonders of the Arctic.
Author Notes
Author Theodore Taylor was born in Statesville, North Carolina on June 23, 1921. At the age of seventeen, he became a copyboy at the Washington, D. C. Daily News and was writing radio network sports for NBC in New York two years later. During World War II, he joined the merchant marines and earned a commission as an ensign in the U. S. Navy. He was recalled to active duty during the Korean War. In 1955, he became a press agent for Paramount Pictures and later became a story editor and an associate producer.
He has written over fifty fiction and non-fiction books for young adults and adults. He has received numerous awards for his works including the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for The Cay, the 1992 Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Young Adult Mystery for The Weirdo, and the 1996 Scott O'Dell Award for historical fiction for The Bomb. He died on October 26, 2006.
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Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-K-The cold Arctic winter and long summer days are contrasted here. Words are kept to a minimum, while dramatic illustrations tell the story of the change of seasons as experienced by birds and other wildlife. A variety of printmaking techniques creates arresting spreads in cool shades of blue to lighter colors, reflecting the warmth and brightness of summer. A lovely choice for sharing with the very young, and a possible supplement for units on the far north.-Sally R. Dow, Ossining Public Library, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
In his picture book debut, Taylor (The Cay) marks the cycle of seasons in one of the world's most remote locations. "Arctic winter is cold, so cold./ The northern lights flicker across the dark sky./ But now Arctic summer is coming!" Taylor begins. Chodos-Irvine's (Apple Pie Fourth of July) otherworldly prints, rendered from a variety of techniques, provide a breathtaking accompaniment. Her compositions seem as straightforward as Taylor's language, but her subtle layering of colors and shapes invites the eye to linger. In the opening spread, for instance, a lone wolf stands on the frozen tundra, gazing toward a low moon. The artist represents the landscape via an amalgam of rough-woven lines of white and ivories infiltrated by irregular, overlaid fields of beiges, blues and violets; the ground looms large and vast below the narrow slice of sky. As the temperature warms, Taylor issues a welcoming chant to the birds and flowers, while the palette brightens. A serene flock of birds undulates across the sky, its curve contrasting gently with the rolling edge of the blossoming shoreline below. Subsequent spreads dip below the surface of the ocean to reveal seals, walrus and whales. As the days grow shorter, text and illustrations circle back to the beginning. The birds fly south against a striated sunset; a polar bear and her cubs, their forms delineated chiefly by finely etched negative space, curl up in a golden heap, encircled by variegated layers of snow and ice. Immediately accessible yet meditative, the art will grip audiences on many levels. Ages 3-7. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved