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Have you ever heard a strange noise coming from somewhere in the house, and when you went to inspect there wasn't anything out of the ordinary? Imagine instead if you heard an odd noise coming from your fridge, so you slowly went over to check it out and discovered that there was a Polar Bear inside! Now imagine that instead of mauling you or running away in fear the bear had a conversation with you about climate change!
That's exactly what happens in There's a Polar Bear in the Fridge by Gypsy Wulff. The book is comprised of two sections - the story of the Polar Bear in the fridge and a section on how you can help protect the environment. The first section is made up of full-page illustrations, the text is all in rhyme and it's some of the best, most natural rhyming I've seen in a children's book. The story is silly, sure, but it also covers why this Polar Bear had to make its way to the young boy's fridge, and that involves learning about the polar ice caps melting!
The second section of the book is made up of tips that kids and adults can follow to help protect the environment. These include things like turning the lights off when you leave a room, recycling and turning off the water while brushing your teeth, and most of them have little illustrations next to them as well.
The art in the book is excellent. The full-page illustrations are especially fantastic: they're colorful, vibrant, sharp and detailed. In the second section, the smaller illustrations are nice as well, although they don't pop as much since the backgrounds are plain white. Overall, illustrator Ryan Jones did a stellar job!
For those who want to protect the environment and want to teach their kids to do the same (or even those who just want to convince their kids to turn the darn lights off when they leave the room!) I highly recommend There's a Polar Bear in the Fridge by Gypsy Wulff. It's cute, it's colorful, the writing is some of the best I've ever seen in a children's book and it was fun to read while teaching a lesson. It is rather on the short side (11 pages in the first section and 3 in the second), but it's still an awesome book. My official rating is 4 out of 4 stars.
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There's a Polar Bear in the Fridge
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