The polar bear son : an Inuit tale /

Dabcovich, Lydia.

The polar bear son : an Inuit tale / Making Meaning : Grade 2 Unit 5 Alternate title retold and illustrated by Lydia Dabcovich. - 37 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm. - Center for the Collaborative Classroom : Making Meaning ; Grade 2 Unit 5 Alternate title .

Wilson's Children, October 2010. Elem. School Library Collection, June 2000. School Library Journal, June 1997. Book Links (A.L.A.), June 2001.

An old woman adopts and raises a polar bear cub which grows up and provides for her even after she has had to send it away to save it from the jealous men of the village.

3.8 K-3 AD660L Lexile

0395727669 0395975670 (pbk.) 9780395727669 0329098624 9780395975671 1428763457 9780329098629 9781428763456 9780605358362

96004780


Inuit--Folklore.
Tales--Arctic regions.
Polar bear--Folklore.
Inuit--Folklore.
Eskimos--Folklore.
Folklore--Arctic regions.
Eskimos--Folklore.
Polar bear--Fiction.

E99.E7 / D28 1997

398.24 DAB E