Can a human boy help save a baby polar bear Paddling through the Arctic Ocean in their kayaks, Tigluk and his grandmother, Aka, spot a polar bear cub on a faraway ice floe. He is all alone and has lost his mother. For decades, naturalist writer Jean Craighead George and acclaimed artist Wendell Minor have shared their deep appreciation for the natural world with young people. In The Last Polar Bear, they deftly weave an environmental message into a contemporary tale about survival and the coexistence between humans and animals in our warming planet, which is perfect for the Common Core. The vivid, realistic paintings capture the beauty of the people, animals, and landscape of the arctic world.