![]() And Bear, finding he can trust her, returns her love. ![]() She loves her father, but he is lost in his work. The love April feels for Bear is powerful and unquestioning. It would break her heart to part with him, but she knows it must be done, somehow. What April knows, deep inside, is that she must rescue Bear and take him to where his family must be, hundreds of miles away. From the very first a deep attachment grows between the lonely child and the last bear on the island. On her first wander away from the house, she encounters Bear. It was a word that sounded like mermaids, enchanted forests or something ethereal and magic.Īnd so April is left on her own to roam the island while her father works. ![]() He teaches April a beautiful Norwegian word for the love of outdoor life. ‘But there are no bears left on Bear Island,’ Dad says. ‘If you see a polar bear,‘ Granny Apple warns, ‘Run!’ Their solitary home is to be the weather station on tiny Bear Island, between Norway and the Svalbard archipelago near the North Pole. ![]() Despite Granny Apple’s protest, he takes April with him on a six-month commission to study the effects of global warming on the Arctic Circle. 11-year-old April’s father is a meteorologist. ![]()
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