Arctic Animals
best books for teaching polar animals
Arctic animals, aka polar animals, live FAR away, but that doesn't stop kids love for them! Cute little penguins, big blubbery walruses, a dolphin with a unicorn's horn... So many kid favorites in one very harsh, distant location! When I teach arctic animals, it never ceases to amaze me how enraptured the kids are. It's like a cartoonist created these animals knowing exactly what pleases kids. As you teach about this climate, try to get kids to ponder life in such an extreme climate, including the adaptations and survival skills required.
Hopefully the following children's books will spark an interest and help kids want to learn more about polar
/ arctic animals and their fascinating, unique habitat. Some of these
books are informational / non-fiction books packed with facts and
details; others are simply books set in the polar region or about polar
animals. (We are still working on reviews for a lot of these books. Please check back often.
best books on arctic animals
Over in the Arctic
by Marianne Berkes
Preschool-1st grade
Survival at
40 Below
2nd -5th grade
Ice Is Nice!
All About the North
and South Poles
Preschool-3rd grade
If You Were
a Penguin
by Florence Minor
Preschool-3rd grade
Polar Animals
(Scholastic Reader)
by Wade Cooper
Preschool-3rd grade
Way Up in
the Arctic
by Jennifer Ward
Preschool-3rd grade
A Walk in
the Tundra
by Rebecca Johnson
3rd - 6th grade
The Emperor's Egg
by Martin Jenkins
K - 2nd grade
Three Snow
Bears
by Jan Brett
Preschool-3rd grade
Emperor Lays
an Egg
1st - 3rd grade
Polar Brrr's Big Adventure
by Bruce Lansky
Preschool-1st grade
One Small Square: Arctic Tundra
by Donald Silver
1st grade +
Nat.Geographic Readers: Penguins
K - 2nd grade
Nat.Geographic Readers:
Polar Bears
K - 2nd grade
Magic Tree House Eve of the Emperor Penguin
+ facts companion book
1st - 4th grade
Magic Tree House Polar Bears Past Bedtime
+ facts companion book
1st - 4th grade
Tacky the Penguin
+ other series books
by Helen Lester
K - 2nd grade