December 07, 2020
On our Tails and Tales reading expedition, Read City USA travels next to the tundra and arctic waters! The tundra is found in the Arctic, beyond the permanent ice pack that surrounds the North Pole. It is a habitat of contrasting seasons, with temperatures as low as –76 degree Fahrenheit in the winter (with almost no sunlight), to temperatures as high as 77 degrees Fahrenheit in the short summer season. Animals found in tundra habitats include polar bears, artcic foxes, seals, narwhals, and snowy owls.
Join us as we bundle up and head north! This book list features the tundra and arctic habitats, the animals that live there, and the people that encounter them.
Juvenile
- Arctic Animals by Tad Carpenter (Board Book)
- Daddy Honk Honk! by Rosaline Bonnet (Easy-Picture Book)
- Journey Under the Arctic by James O. Fraioli (Juvenile Graphic Novel)
- North: The Amazing Story of Arctic Migration by Nick Dowson (Juvenile Nonfiction)
- The Polar Bear by Jenni Desmond (Juvenile Nonfiction)
- Pup and Bear by Kate Banks (Easy-Picture Book)
- The Quest of the Cubs by Kathryn Lasky (Juvenile Fiction)
- Read the Book, Lemmings! by Ame Dyckman (Easy-Picture Book)
- The Very, Very Far North by Dan Bar-El (Juvenile Fiction)
- What's that Noise? by Naomi Howarth (Easy-Picture Book)
Teen
- Alone Across the Arctic: One Woman's Epic Journey by Dog Team by Pam Flowers
- The Rig by Joe Ducie
- SOS Titanic by Eve Bunting
- Survive by Alex Morel
- Troubling a Star by Madeleine L'Engle
Adult Fiction
- Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
- The Ice Master: A Novel of the Arctic by James Houston
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean
- The Collector of Lost Things by Jeremy Page
- The Terror by Dan Simmons
Adult Nonfiction
- Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth
- Narwhals: Arctic Whales in a Melting World by Todd McLeish
- The Stowaway by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
- In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Voyage of the U.S.S. Jeannette by Hampton Sides
- Dominion of Bears: Living with Wildlife in Alaska by Sherry Simpson
- Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye: A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure, Truth, and Mini-Marshmallows by Zac Unger
- The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Valliant