One Bear's Battle Against Global WarmingIllustrator: Jeremiah Trammell
Copyright: 2007
Rating: 4.5
For: Older kids
Endpapers: Lots of happy polar bears carrying signs: Wind Power, Walk, Ride Bikes, Make Less Garbage, Save Our Home, Recycle, Ice is Nice, Pass Up Gas, Solar Power, Turn off Stuff, Turn Down the Furnace, Brrrr is Best, Save Trees....
Green Earth Book Award
Winston, a great white polar bear of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada is concerned about global warming and the loss of ice in his home territory. He calls the bears together (even the teenager bears with spiked green fur, leather spike bracelets and tattoos) to give them all a copy of his book Why It's Getting Hotter. It gives a good explanation for older kids. They then decide to protest - with signs - when the tourist tundra buggy comes by the next day. So we meet a number of tourists and see what they see when they approach the polar bears.
At the end of the book, as a prologue, is an extra explanation about the plight of the polar bears and a bit about Winston Churchill, prime minister of England from 1940 to 1945, our Winston's namesake.
I like the illustrations a lot. The bears are bursting with personality.
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