Caribou Journey (Fantastic Journeys series) - Hardcover

French, Vivian

9781840892161: Caribou Journey (Fantastic Journeys series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840892161 ISBN 13: 9781840892161

Publisher: Zero To Ten, 2001

Eight-month-old Soft Ear follows her mother Ragged Ear and the other female caribou and their calves as they leave their home and the males behind to face the harsh and hazardous journey to the distant calving grounds.

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About the Author:

Vivian French is a full-time author and storyteller. Lisa Flather won the Mother Goose Award for Illustration for Where the Great Bear Watches and is the illustrator of What is the Truth? Karin Littlewood is the illustrator of Chanda and the Mirror of Moonlight.

From School Library Journal:

Gr 3-6-A beginning note and map show the parts of the world where these animals live and the route they take during their seasonal migration. French follows a female and her yearling, Ragged Ear and Soft Ear. With the other females and calves, they leave their home in the Northwest Territories and begin moving north, leaving the males behind. Through blizzards, across ice, braving wolf attacks, the caribou continue on and in June, they reach the calving grounds where Long Legs is born. By following this mother and yearling, French's present-tense narration has immediacy, and the rigors of the journey are shown through illustrations done in soft blues, beige, and grays. Two columns of text are placed together on one side of each spread, allowing an uninterrupted sense of the immense landscape. A particularly arresting scene is that of the long lines of caribou all traveling in the same direction as seen from above. A good selection for nature assignments or for nonfiction book reports.

Sally Bates Goodroe, formerly at Harris County Public Library, Houston, TX

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