Sea giants
Narwhals Beside the Kayak
A narwhal’s spiral tusk is a tooth that grows through its upper lip, up to about 10 feet long. Your child points while you hold the paddle steady.
The Arctic Expedition
Narwhals, snow houses and a mammoth
- 32 pages
- 8 × 11 in (21 × 28 cm) Hardcover
You and your child paddle beside narwhals, warm up at a snow house, find a 42,000-year-old baby mammoth and visit Fram, the ship built to ride the ice. Then learn why the North Pole is ice, not land.
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Paddle beside narwhals and walruses, warm up at a lamp-lit snow house, meet a baby mammoth found in the ice and the ship built to ride it. Every story page has a true fact and a question to answer from the picture.
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10 of the 30 story pages in The Arctic Expedition. Each one has a true fact and a question to find in the picture.
Shown with an example family. In your book, it’s your family. The printed book has 32 pages: an opening, 30 story pages and a closing.
Inside The Arctic Expedition
What you’ll discover together
Three chapters: the animals under the ice, the people who made homes in the cold, and the secrets the ice has kept.
Surviving the cold
Houses Built From Snow
Some Inuit families built snow houses from blocks of packed snow for winter hunting trips. In the book, you warm your hands at the glowing door.
The Arctic summer
Daylight at Midnight
North of the Arctic Circle, the midsummer sun stays up all night, so a watch says midnight in daylight. At the North Pole it rises and sets once a year.
Seabird cliffs
Summer on the Bird Cliffs
Each summer, puffins, kittiwakes and terns raise their chicks on Arctic cliffs and shores. In the book, count kittiwakes on an iceberg and the eggs in a tern’s nest.
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The Arctic Expedition
32 pages · 8 × 11 in (21 × 28 cm) Hardcover
$54.99USD
A personalized Arctic picture book starring your child and you: narwhals, snow houses, a 42,000-year-old mammoth and 30 true facts. Free preview.
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What will my child learn?
Why a narwhal’s tusk is really a tooth, how walruses use their tusks to haul out onto the ice, how Inuit families lit their homes with stone lamps, how Lyuba the baby mammoth was found, and why Fram’s round hull beat the ice. Each page asks a question your child answers by looking at the painting.
Does the story stay at the North Pole?
No. Three chapters move from Arctic seas to the peoples of the North, then out to the Pole. There is no land there: the Pole is sea ice drifting over about 2.5 miles (4 km) of ocean, and every direction is south.
Is any of it scary?
No. The polar bear is far off across the ice, seen through binoculars, and the other animals are watched from a distance. Lyuba the mammoth lived long ago and is shown as she was found, resting in riverbank mud.
Who is in the book?
Your child and one grown-up you choose, drawn from your photos onto every page. Both names go on the cover.
What is this book?
A personalized hardcover picture book about the Arctic. Your child and their grown-up are drawn into all 30 story pages, from narwhals and walruses to a snow house you build together. Each page is one moment of the story, one true fact and one question your child can answer by looking at the picture.
What age is it for?
Ages 2 to 10. Little ones find themselves in the pictures while you read aloud. Older kids read the facts and answer the questions on their own.
How big is it, and what’s it made of?
A landscape hardcover, 8 × 11 in (21 × 28 cm), with 32 pages: an opening, 30 story pages and a closing. Printed in full color on thick 170 gsm silk paper, with a matte-laminated cover.
What can I personalize?
The child’s photo and name, and the grown-up’s photo and what the child calls them: Grandma, Nana, Dad, Auntie. The names go on the cover, like “Starring Maya & Nana.”
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Can I order more than one book?
Yes. All Cradl books share one cart, so you can mix titles and formats, and every book is the same price: $54.99 for a hardcover and $39.99 for a softcover.
When will it arrive?
Each book is printed close to you: in the US, the UK and Canada for those countries, and in New Zealand for Australia. It arrives in 5 to 7 business days in the US, 4 to 5 in the UK and Canada, and 7 to 12 in Australia.
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What if something’s wrong with my book?
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