Journey to the Arctic, where polar bears must await the arrival of winter. With stunning photographs from award-winning professional wildlife photographer Stephen Gorman, Waiting for Winter tells the story of a group of polar bears living in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Each year, these bears must wait longer and longer for winter, the season that brings them sustenance for the rest of the year. This hopeful nonfiction picture book gently engages and educates readers about the effects of climate change. A parent and educator guide also provides strategies and conversation starters for talking to children about Earth’s changing climate.

For ages 5-9.

About the Author
Stephen Gorman is an internationally recognized wildlife photographer and best-selling author. His work focuses on how cultural values and national mythologies shape our relationships to the world we live in and the diverse societies with which we share it. Gorman is the author and photographer of several books, including The American Wilderness: Journeys into Distant and Historic Landscapes and Northeastern Wilds: Journeys of Discovery in the Northern Forest. He also won the Benjamin Franklin Award for Arctic Visions: Encounters at the Top of the World, a book commissioned by the Inuit of Nunavik in Canada. Throughout his career, Gorman has worked on cultural and environmental assignments for leading periodicals such as National Geographic, Discovery Channel, and Sierra. His most recent exhibitions include Down to the Bone, a collaboration with beloved New Yorker artist Edward Koren at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, and Visions of Inuit Life—Photographs by Stephen Gorman at the Museo del Oro in Bogota, Colombia.