The Polar Bear
by Jenni Desmond
Buy on AmazonA gorgeously illustrated nonfiction book about the polar bear, this is a factually accurate as well as a poetic exploration of polar bear bodies, habits, and habitats. Working in a painterly, expressive way, Jenni Desmond creates landscapes and creatures that are marked by atmosphere and emotion, telling a story about bears that engages the reader's interest in amazing facts as well as their deep sense of wonder. A graduate of the renowned MA program in Children's Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art (ARU), Jenni Desmond works from her studio in London, UK. This, her second book for Enchanted Lion, will be followed by one about elephants.
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"That’s what London-based illustrator and Sendak Fellow Jenni Desmond explores in The Polar Bear , also among the year’s best science books — the follow-up to The Blue Whale , Desmond’s serenade to the science and life of Earth’s largest-hearted creature, which was among the best science books of 2015."
Best Children's Books of 2016 · themarginalian.org
"Desmond’s wonderful project alleviates that task by offering a warm, empathic invitation to care about, which is the gateway to caring for, one of the creatures most vulnerable to our changing climate and most needful of our protection."
Best Science Books of 2016 · themarginalian.org