With their beautiful white fur and powerful presence, polar bears rule the Arctic. These majestic giants swim from iceberg to iceberg in chilling waters, care for their adorable cubs, and are threatened by global warming. In this Level 1 reader you'll learn all you ever wanted to know about polar bears and so much more. Complete with fascinating facts, beautiful images, National Geographic Readers: Polar Bears can't miss.

• Level 2: For kids who are reading independently, ages 5-7
• Softcover
• 32 pages
• 6" x 9"
• © 2013

Laura Marsh has worked in children's publishing for nearly twenty years as an editor, packager, and currently as an author. She has written fourteen books in the National Geographic Kids Readers series, including the Great Migrations books. She currently lives in Westchester County, NY, with her husband, two sons, and their dog Bode.

This high-interest, educationally vetted series of beginning readers features the magnificent images of National Geographic, accompanied by texts written by experienced, skilled children's book authors. The inside back cover of the paperback edition is an interactive feature based upon the book. Level 1 books reinforce the content of the book with a kinesthetic learning activity. In Level 2 books readers complete a Cloze letter, or fun fill-in, with vocabulary words.