| A Children's Guide to Arctic Butterflies English Edition Contributor(s): Pelletier, Mia (Author), Christopher, Danny (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1772271772 ISBN-13: 9781772271775 Publisher: Inhabit Media OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals - Butterflies, Moths & Caterpillars - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places - Polar Regions - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature - Zoology |
| Dewey: 595.789 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 8.1" W x 9.5" (0.80 lbs) 40 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Arctic/Antarctic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: There are 20,000 species of butterflies in the world, but only several dozen are found on the tundra of the North American Arctic. Many Arctic animals have warm, woolly coats, downy feathers, or thick layers of blubber, and Arctic butterflies appear fragile with their fluttering, delicate wings. Yet the hardy butterflies that live at the top of the world have many clever ways to keep themselves warm in cool summers and endure icy-cold winters. In A Children's Guide to Arctic Butterflies, young readers learn about twelve of the butterflies that call the Arctic home and how they survive on the tundra from one season to the next. With a simple layout and easy-to-follow headings for each butterfly, this beautiful book is filled with fun, useful facts, including introductory material about the life cycle and anatomy of butterflies and how they begin life as caterpillars. Step inside and journey North--you may even spot a familiar fluttering friend. While some of the butterflies found in A Children's Guide to Arctic Butterflies are among the most northern of butterfly species, many can also be found south of the Arctic and in high, cold places around the world |
Contributor Bio(s): Pelletier, Mia: - Mia Pelletier studied ecology and anthropology and holds an MSc from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology in the United Kingdom. Drawn to wilderness and shorelines, Mia has lived in faraway places from California to the Magdalen Islands and the Canadian Arctic and spent six years working on the co-management of Arctic protected areas with Inuit communities on Baffin Island. A Children's Guide to Arctic Butterflies is her third Arctic natural history book for children.Christopher, Danny: - Danny Christopher has travelled throughout the Canadian Arctic as an instructor for Nunavut Arctic College. He is the illustrator of The Legend of the Fog, A Children's Guide to Arctic Birds, and Animals Illustrated: Polar Bear, and author of Putuguq and Kublu. His work on The Legend of the Fog was nominated for the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award. He lives in Toronto with his wife, four children, and a dog. |