{"id":42193,"date":"2025-04-16T23:14:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T03:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=42193"},"modified":"2025-04-16T23:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T03:14:36","slug":"review-of-polar-bear-by-candace-fleming-and-eric-rohmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=42193","title":{"rendered":"Review of Polar Bear, by Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/polar_bear_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/polar_bear_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45137\" \/><\/a><em>Polar Bear<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann<\/p>\n<p>Neal Porter Books (Holiday House), 2022.  40 pages.<br \/>\nReview written February 13, 2023, from a library book.<br \/>\nA 2022 Capitol Choices Selection<br \/>\nStarred Review<\/p>\n<p>Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann do amazing work together.  As in the Sibert Medal-winning <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/honeybee.html\">Honeybee<\/a><\/em>, large and beautiful paintings accompany accessible text and help us understand better the lives of wild creatures.<\/p>\n<p><em>Polar Bear<\/em> follows a mother and two cubs in their day-to-day lives.  (And oh, the cuteness of the cubs!)  We understand better why melting sea ice is a problem when we read about a particular bear needing to fatten up enough to live on land, where she can&#8217;t get seal blubber to eat.  We learn about the challenges of caring for cubs and how she takes care of them while hunting enough food to survive.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By the start of June, the bear family has moved far out onto the ice.<br \/>\nThe cubs are growing fast &#8212; very fast.<br \/>\nAnd Mother has gorged herself.  She has regained much of her weight.  But it is not enough.<br \/>\nSoon, the bay&#8217;s ice will melt into open water.<br \/>\nMother must fatten up now if she and the cubs are to survive summer&#8217;s lean months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Learn about the everyday life of a polar bear family up close in a way you&#8217;ve never seen them before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/candacefleming.com\/\">candacefleming.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericrohmann.com\/\">ericrohmann.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/holidayhouse.com\/\">HolidayHouse.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0823449165\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/polar_bear.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/polar_bear.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polar Bear by Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann Neal Porter Books (Holiday House), 2022. 40 pages. Review written February 13, 2023, from a library book. A 2022 Capitol Choices Selection Starred Review Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann do amazing work together. As in the Sibert Medal-winning Honeybee, large and beautiful paintings accompany accessible text and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,33,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-science","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45138,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42193\/revisions\/45138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}