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Big Alaska: Journey Across America's Most Amazing State
by Debbie S. Miller (Illustrator: Jon Van Zyle)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readers (2006-02-21)
ISBN: 0802780695
EAN: 9780802780690
Dewey Decimal #: 917.98
Hardcover: 40 pages
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Release Date: 2006-02-21
SKU: 92508000001
Condition: New
Comments: 0802780695 New, never read, may have minor wear on cover.
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Product Description
Come soar across Alaska’s extraordinary landscape and see its wonders through the eyes of our national emblem, the bald eagle. Alaska is our biggest state, but it is also one of the least populated, making it an enormous span of natural wonders and astonishing wilderness. This unique place is home to the tallest mountain, the most active volcanoes, and the largest land mammals in North America. See hundred-pound salmon, two-ton walruses, and thundering herds of caribou. Take wing through mountains covered with glaciers, fly under the cover of lush rain forests, and circle over barren Arctic tundras.
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The Great Land
Rating  (5)
Date: 2006-11-08
I am always happy to see a new collaboration from author Debbie S. Miller and Jon Van Zyle and this offering doesn't disappoint! This is a great book to use when introducing school age children to the great state of Alaska. With the help of a bald eagle we travel through 3,100 miles of Alaska covering all five regions--Southeast, Southcentral, Southwest, Interior, and Arctic. Each area highlighted receives one illustration and one page of text. The back of the book contains Alaska facts, State symbols, Climate records, and has additional information on all the Alaskan special places covered in the book's text. I would love to have seen the Fairbanks area as well as the farthest north community in North America, Barrow, also included, but Alaska IS a big state and perhaps those areas as well as others will be included in the next (I hope there will be a next!) book.
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