Bent Northrop Memorial Library

"When the earth was new, words had the power to breathe life into the world. But when creating animals from breath, sometimes one does not get everything right on the first try. Based on a traditional Inuit story passed forward orally for generations in the South Baffin region of Nunavut, this book shares with young readers the origin of the caribou and the walrus--and tells of how very different these animals looked when they were first conceived"--...

The adventures of a young deer in the forest as he grows into a beautiful stag.

Alex Carter heads to northeastern Washington State to investigate a possible sighting of a mountain caribou--an animal that became extinct in the contiguous U.S. years ago--and becomes embroiled in a clash between loggers and activists and the murder of a local forest ranger.

Surveys the migrations, habits, and habitat of a herd of caribou in Alaska.

Describes all the wonders of nature that the reader might see when setting out to find a caribou on an island in Lake Superior.

Discusses the thousands of deer that migrate across the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to give birth each year.

An alphabet book depicting the characteristics and ways of caribou.

Presents a memoir in which Farley Mowat recalls his experiences as a member of a scientific expedition to the northern Manitoba in 1947 where he joined young trapper Charles Schweder in trying to provide assistance to Eskimos struggling with small pox and famine.