A Bear Belongs
A Wildlife Rescue Story
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
The incredible true story of how three tiny sun bears in Borneo were rescued from poachers, rehabilitated, and released back into the rainforest where they belong.
Southeast Asian rainforests are home to one of the rarest and most endangered bears of all: the sun bear. Sun bears belong deep in the forest, far from humans. But this is the true story of three little bears who were taken from their wild home . . .
Follow Tan-Tan, Boboi, and Kitud from their heartbreaking beginnings as cubs stolen from their natural habitat, through their heroic rescue by conservationists, until at last they are released back into the wild rainforest of Borneo--because that's where a bear belongs.
This captivating nonfiction picture book features insightful fact pages about the amazing flora and fauna of the rainforest and the importance of this incredible ecosystem alongside inspiring information about how to protect endangered sun bears.
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In a two-part narrative, Barr and Hobday share the bracing but triumphant true account of three sun bears who are rescued from poachers and released back into the wild. After establishing that "Bears are in trouble" and that sun bears are among the world's most endangered species, wrenching opening text imagines the brutal separation of one bear cub, Tan-Tan, from her mother: "They shoot her mother and then pull the cub roughly from her mother's warm black fur." The tone shifts quickly to one of optimism when the orphaned animal ends up in the hands of Dr. Wong, director of the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center, who soon takes in two more cubs. With "fact files" interspersed throughout ("What makes a sun bear so special?"), brief chapters describe the multiyear effort to raise the endangered young and prepare them for reentry into the rainforest. Airy calligraphic paintings present the subjects as frolicsome and their environment as lush in vibrant, text-framing illustrations. It's a sympathetic portrayal that makes a rousing case for conservation. Ages 5–8.
