Alaska's 12 Days of Summer

Best-selling Paws IV illustrator Shannon Cartwright is back with this charming children's book based on the infectious rhythms of the classic song 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.' Here, the famous 'partridge in a pear tree' becomes a 'black bear in a spruce tree, ' while the fifth day of summer in Alaska yields everything from swans and wood frogs to bald eagles and moose.

Count Alaska's famous wild animals while singing along to the well-known tune of "The Twelve Days of Christmas." On each page, more and more animals appear, starting with starting with a single bear in a spruce tree and growing until animals are everywhere, waiting to be discovered and counted.

Author: Pat Chamberlin-Calamar
Publisher: Little Bigfoot
Published: 03/04/2003
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.44h x 10.64w x 0.14d
ISBN: 9781570613418
Audience: Ages 4-8


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 08/01/2003 pg. 147
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2003 pg. 175 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2004 pg. 175 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw

About the Author
Pat Chamberlin-Calamar has taught everything from music and English in Denmark to folk guitar and parent-toddler classes. She and her husband, Don, spend summers in Talkeetna, Alaska.

Shannon Cartwright arrived in Alaska in 1972 after graduating from the University of Michigan School of Architecture and Design. She has spent most of her Alaska years living in the bush, away from the road system, and has never owned a TV or a computer and communicates by satellite phone and US mail. Cartwright has traveled all over the state working on a set-net site in Bristol Bay, driving horse-pack trips, guiding in the Alaska Range and Brooks Range, researching book projects, and traveling between her cabins by train, skis, snowmobiles, and horses. She expresses her love of Alaska through the 28 children's books she has illustrated, seven of which she has also written.


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