Crowley County Combined Library

In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship will begin with a long journey - a journey that will take them hundreds of miles across the continent by foot, one by one in a single file. They will endure freezing temperatures, in brittle, icy winds and through deep, treacherous waters. They will risk starvation and attack by dangerous predators, under the harshest...

Brilliantly attuned to the transience of nature and painfully aware of the precariousness of a polar environment facing global warming, Peter Matthiessen provides an exquisite account of his voyage through the islands surrounding Antarctica. In lyrical prose, Matthiessen describes the wildlife he encounters and the region it inhabits, along with historical information regarding the greatest pioneers and adventurers who preceded him. Matthiessen brings...

Follow an Emperor penguin on its migration in Antarctica to breeding grounds in the month of March. This amazing bird will delight readers, as will the photos and exciting information, and migration route map! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

Provides a year in the life of a penguin family as the mother emperor penguin lays her egg, the father protects it and keeps it warm until it hatches, and the little baby grows big enough to go on its own for its very first swim during Antarctica's short summer.

Full-color, detailed photographs and illustrations help the reader discover the frozen beauty of the polar regions and the remarkable flora and fauna that survive in these hostile conditions.

For 337 days, award-winning wildlife cameraman Lindsay McCrae intimately followed 11,000 emperor penguins amid the singular beauty of Antarctica. This is his masterful chronicle of one penguin colony's astonishing journey of life, death, and rebirth--and of the extraordinary human experience of living amongst them in the planet's harshest environment. A miracle occurs each winter in Antarctica. As temperatures plummet 60 degrees below zero and the...

"Explore Antarctica--the coldest, driest, and windiest continent on Earth--in this adventure-filled title in the Who HQ series. Antarctica, the earth's southernmost continent, was virtually untouched by humans until the nineteenth century. Many famous explorers journeyed (and often died) there in the hope of discovering a land that always seemed out of reach. This book introduces readers to this desert--yes, desert!--continent that holds about 90...

In the frozen wilderness of Antarctica, where seas ice over and just staying alive is an achievement, one creature has perfected the art of survival--the emperor penguin.

"Enter the dark Antarctic winter, where a pair of emperor penguins share the task of keeping their young one alive--and discover how fighting climate change is key to their survival"--

When Snowball realizes that all he can see is other Emperor penguins, he decides to explore Antarctica with his Emperor penguin friends.