Follows a bear from the time she emerges from her den in April after four months without food, through months of eating fish, ants, and huckleberries, to midwinter when the arrival of two cubs interrupts her long winter's rest. Includes facts about brown(grizzly) bears of the Yellowstone National Park/Glacier National Park region.
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ALA Notable Book
NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book
Find out how bears eat, drink, sleep, hunt, and more throughout the year in this award-winning nonfiction picture book from the celebrated team of April Pulley Sayre and Caldecott Honor illustrator Steve Jenkins—now featuring updated end matter with even more illuminating info about these amazing creatures.
Can you eat like a bear? Awake in April. Find food. But where?
Follow a brown bear as she paws, claws, and munches her way through the months of the year, filling up for the long winter ahead, when—while hibernating—she’ll welcome two new cubs to her cozy den. With rhythmic, lyrical words by April Pulley Sayre and newly remastered collage illustrations by Steve Jenkins, this book illuminates the fascinating lives of grizzly bears.
