Children's Stories

This is a story about a young polar bear who ends up in polar bear jail after hitting the town dump. This story would connect well to the study of polar bears up in Churchill.

This Canadian story is a traditional Inuit legend that has been recreated by Bushey, about a child who saves a baby polar bear.

A counting book that introduces different animals of the artic Beautiful illustrations!
 

A polar bear cub has lost his mother in the snow-covered forest.  Unable to find her after a long search, he decides to build a big white bear out of snow to keep him company while he waits.  His forest friends arrive one by one to help him, but when darkness falls, their own mothers call them home.  The little white bear is left alone again.  The cub cuddles close to the snow bear and falls fast asleep. As dawn breaks, the little bear hears sniffing in the forest - has his mother found him?
 

Angel lies awake in the early morning, waiting for the rest of the family to begin the day. Suddenly, her apartment is full of water! Angel paddles happily around the house until an open refrigerator turns all the water to ice and a polar bear appears.  After Angel rids the apartment of its ice and water, she and the polar bear settle down to a game of dominoes

The polar bear son: an Inuit tale
retold and illustrated by Lydia Dabcovich. 
Clarion Books, New York 1997.

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.
 

This is the first book of a trilogy. The story is a fantasy; we meet the polar bears as characters who live as a tribe and are suffering the effects of a changing universe.  Well worth reading aloud to students in grades 4 and up.