The Polar Bear Past Bedtime

 

Title- Polar Bear Past Bedtime
Author/Retold- Mary Pope Osborne
Illustrated by N/A
Genre- Fantasy/Science Fiction
Grade level- 3rd-4th Grade

The story begins with an owl waking up Jack and Annie. They go to the magical tree house and the enchantress, Morgan, gives them their last riddle to solve and a book called Adventures in the Arctic. The tree house transports them there and they meet a seal hunter who was told in a vision to help them. He gives them clothes and takes them back to his village. Annie feels sad because the hunters feeds the dogs with seal meat. He explains that the seals provide for his whole village. The hunter shows the children a polar bear mask that the tribe wears to thank the polar bear spirit. They go outside to feed the dogs and children wander off and start to play with two polar bear cubs.stran Suddenly, the ice breaks apart and they are all stranded on the sheet of ice. The mother polar bear comes and the children put on the polar bear mask to  make the mother bear think they are polar bears. They get off the ice sheet and thank the polar bear by dancing around the bear. The children realize that the mask is the key to the riddle. They go back to the tree house but it doesn’t go any where. They realize that their is one more riddle to solve. The riddle is about what is the place they love most. They realize it’s “home” and they return to their original place. Morgan gives them magical library cards and says they are now “Master Librarians.”

This is a very good book for free reading and teaches lessons about cultures. This book specifically talks about another culture and their idea of the circle of life and the importance of animals in their culture. I think this would be a good book for a student to free read.


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