Poles Apart: Why Penguins and Polar Bears Will Never Be Neighbors

by Elaine Scott

Book Overview

Santa Claus frolicking with penguins and polar bears--do you know what's wrong with this picture? Actually, no penguin has ever lived at the North Pole, nor any polar bear at the South Pole. Using a wide range of disciplines from physics to geography to biology, award- winning science writer Elaine Scott explores some of the unique properties shared by the two ends of the Earth's axis, and other ways in which they are poles apart. Find out what makes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670059250
• ISBN13: 9780670059256
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Viking Children's Books
• Length: 63 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.8" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Making it understandable

One of Elaine Scott's true talents is taking a complex topic and making it understandable for children and adults. She incorporates a fabulous mix of history, geography, biography, and science in Poles Apart.