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    Life in a Frozen World: Wildlife of Antarctica
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    Life in a Frozen World: Wildlife of Antarctica
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    Life in a Frozen World: Wildlife of Antarctica

    By Mary Batten and Thomas Gonzalez

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    Award-winning nature writer Mary Batten uncovers the climate change mysteries of our planet’s coldest, most extreme environment—Antarctica. With magnificent illustrations from Thomas Gonzalez.

    ★ “Informative…fascinating…. A superb choice for students who are studying animal adaptation and how climate change impacts Antarctica. The well-researched text and captivating illustrations work well to convey the importance of conservation.” —School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW

    Did you know that Antarctica could be the key to long-standing questions about the Earth and climate change? Though it seems very far away from us at the bottom of the world, this frozen continent affects weather, ocean currents, and sea levels all over the Earth. Its wildlife survives—and even thrives—on ice. And in the long run, so do we.

    From award-winning, experienced nature writer Mary Batten comes a remarkable nonfiction picture book that plumbs the mysteries of one of the most hostile environments on the planet. With clear, engaging language, Batten explores fascinating questions that scientists the world over have been researching, such as:

    • In the intensely cold, windy, and dry environment of Antarctica, how does a wide variety of wildlife survive?
    • How do some species of Antarctic fishes make a natural antifreeze that prevents their blood from freezing solid?
    • How does a forest of giant seaweed flourish under the sea when no other trees grow on the continent?
    • Antarctica’s creatures are exquisitely adapted to their extreme habitat, but can they survive warmer waters and atmosphere?

    New York Times bestselling illustrator Thomas Gonzalez (14 Cows for America) brings Batten’s text to life with detailed, realistic paintings that leap off the page.

    An ideal resource for young science lovers and educators, this informative volume is perfect for classroom units on climate change, conservation, ecology, environment, nature, oceanography, and more.

    Also by Mary Batten:
    Aliens from Earth
    Hey Daddy! Animal Fathers and Their Babies
    Please Don’t Wake the Animals
    Who Has a Belly Button?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeachtree Publishers
    Release dateNov 1, 2020
    ISBN9781682632642
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    Life in a Frozen World: Wildlife of Antarctica
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    Mary Batten

    Mary Batten is an award-winning writer for television, film and publishing. Her many writing projects have taken her into tropical rainforests, astronomical observatories, scientific laboratories, and medical research centers. She is the author of Baby Orca (Penguin, scheduled for release spring 2016), Please Don’t Wake the Animals: A Book About Sleep (Peachtree 2008); Who Has a Belly Button? (Peachtree 2004); Aliens from Earth: When Animals and Plants Invade Other Ecosystems (Peachtree 2003) – 2006 Izaak Walton League of America Conservation Book of the Year Award; Adopted by New York City Public Schools in support of science requirement for study of ecosystems; Hey, Daddy! Animal Fathers and Their Babies – Named Outstanding Science Read Aloud 2003 by the National Association for the Advancement of Science (Peachtree 2002); Wild Cats (Random House 2002); Anthropologist: Scientist of the People -- Named Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children by the National Science Teachers Association and the Children’s Book Council (Houghton Mifflin 2001). Other books include: Hungry Plants (Random House, 2000); The Winking, Blinking Sea -- Named one of the Best Children’s Books for 2001 (Millbrook Press, 2000); Extinct! Creatures of the Past (Golden Books, 2000); Baby Wolf (Grosset and Dunlap, 1998); Sexual Strategies: How Females Choose Their Mates, (Tarcher/Putnam, 1994); Nature’s Tricksters (Sierra Club Books/Little Brown, 1992), Discovery By Chance (Funk and Wagnalls) and The Tropical Forest: Ants, Ants, Animals and Plants (T.Y. Crowell). She has appeared on OPRAH and various other television shows. Her magazine articles are published in a variety of publications, including Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Modern Maturity, Shape, International Wildlife, National Geographic World, ZooNooz, and Science Digest, Mary Batten was nominated for an Emmy for her work on the Children's Television Workshop's science series 3-2-1-CONTACT, and she has written some 50 nature documentaries for television series, including the syndicated WILD WILD WORLD OF ANIMALS (Time-Life Films) and others for National Geographic and Disney Educational Films. Her magazine article for Science Digest, Sexual Choice: The Female’s Newly Discovered Role, won The Newswomen’s Club of New York’s Front Page Award for best feature story. She was editor of The Cousteau Society’s award-winning membership magazine, Calypso Log, for six years. She was married to the late composer Ed Bland. They have two children: dancer/choreographer Stefanie Batten Bland and writer Robert Bland.

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