Arctic+Song

Arctic Song

Bibliographic Data: Reading level: Ages 4-7 Hardcover: 32 Publisher: Troll Communications Language: English ISBN 0-8167-6069-1

Author Bibliography: Miriam Moss lives in England with her family and cats. She has written more than 50 children’s books. Summary: Arctic Song is the story of two polar bear cubs who go off in search of whalesong. They meet different animals along the way and eventually make it to the whale who sings whalesong. Then they make their way back home to their mother.

Review: I chose this book because it does a great job of introducing children to different types of animals that live in the arctic. It also gives a teacher an opportunity to teach their students about how it can be light out for 24 hours in certain places for different seasons.

Analysis: This book has great examples of alliteration. Alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of a word. Reading this book could get help students to understand the definition of alliteration or to try to use it on their own. An example of this in the story is “shivers and scatters” or “smooth as silk” or “flash of fish”.