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NORTH: The Amazing Story of Arctic Migration
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NORTH: The Amazing Story of Arctic Migration Hardcover - 2011

by DOWSON, Nick

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Candlewick Press, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. Patrick Benson color illus.. CONDITION: Very Good, pre-read Candlewick large hardcover (decorated boards) & dust jacket (blue foil title), first edition, first printing. Nothing really wrong with this book, just pre-read - more than once, it appears. Interior clean. CONTENT: Come along on an extraordinary wildlife adventure! Every spring, millions of animals, including gray whales, white cranes, wolves, and caribou, set off from around the world on a long journey north. Follow them as they fly, swim, or walk hundreds - even thousands - of miles to the Arctic, where they'll feed and breed all summer. Combining powerful, poetic words and stunning illustrations, wildlife author Nick Dowson and award-winning illustrator Patrick Benson team up to celebrate the greatest journey on Earth. (A Junior Library Guild selection.)
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  • Title NORTH: The Amazing Story of Arctic Migration
  • Author DOWSON, Nick
  • Illustrator Patrick Benson color illus.
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition 1st Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 56
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Candlewick Press
  • Date 2011
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 003034
  • ISBN 9780763652715 / 0763652717
  • Weight 1.51 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.57 x 10.12 x 0.49 in (29.39 x 25.70 x 1.24 cm)
  • Ages 07 to 10 years
  • Grade levels 2 - 5
  • Reading level 920
  • Library of Congress subjects Animal migration - Arctic regions, Migratory animals - Arctic regions
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010048131
  • Dewey Decimal Code 591.568

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From the publisher

Nick Dowson is the author of TRACKS OF A PANDA and TIGRESS. A teacher and naturalist, he lives in Suffolk, England.

Patrick Benson has received the Mother Goose Award, the Christopher Award, and the Kurt Maschler Award. He has collaborated with Roald Dahl, Russell Hoban, and Martin Waddell, whose book OWL BABIES has sold 12 million copies. Patrick Benson lives in Scotland.

Media reviews

This striking account of arctic migration offers a northerly, book-bound counterpart to "March of the Penguins." Dowson’s descriptions are both simple and poetic, as polar bears, gray whales, jaegers, snow geese and pregnant caribou make their way from points south toward the North Pole in Benson’s sumptuous, shimmery paintings. Appropriately oversize considering its vast majesty, this book will inspire in young readers an equally outsize sense of wonder.
—The New York Times

Simple but effective, this is a beautiful introduction to a remarkable region that should encourage any child's sense of wonder.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Dowson's poetic text and Benson's impressionistic watercolors introduce seasonal changes as well as various birds, mammals, and even fish that undertake the long migration. The spare text and expansive views provide an inviting sense of the terrain and the journeys endured by the animals...an attractive entry in the growing number of nonfiction poetry picture books, offering rich read-aloud and browsing opportunities.
—School Library Journal (starred review)

The text has an appealing delicacy, with a touch of lyricism... Benson’s detailed illustrations in watercolor, pencil, and pen move easily from subtlety to grandeur; while the draftsmanship is softly realistic, the imagination behind them brings the natural world to vivid life.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)

About the author

Nick Dowson is the author of TRACKS OF A PANDA and TIGRESS. A teacher and naturalist, he lives in Suffolk, England.
Patrick Benson has received the Mother Goose Award, the Christopher Award, and the Kurt Maschler Award. He has collaborated with Roald Dahl, Russell Hoban, and Martin Waddell, whose book OWL BABIES has sold 12 million copies. Patrick Benson lives in Scotland.

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