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Fat Bear Week

When the leaves start falling and the bears start making their way to Katmai National Park, an epic showdown begins. Hosted by the National Parks Service, Fat Bear Week is a bracket-style competition where you vote for your favorite bear as they fatten up on migrating salmon before hibernation. To prepare for this fall's contest, here's a list of titles about bears, hibernation and salmon migration. Learn why we want the Katmai bears to be as fat as they can be.

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  • Only about 10 percent of salmon offspring live to the second stage of the fish's life cycle. Even stranger, they sometimes develop a hump or large teeth before reproducing. Readers learn these bizarre facts and more with colorful photographs and…
    Book, 2013New York : Gareth Stevens Pub., 2013 — J597.56 HAR
  • Autumn is ending, and a chilly breeze is drifting in, which can mean only one thing: it’s time to hibernate over the long winter. Before Small Bear does, she’d like for Mama to tell her some stories. Mama agrees, with one condition: all the…
    Picture Book, 2020New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2020] — J PICTURE BOOK MCG
  • A Bear's Life uses Ian McAllister's stunning photographs to follow these beautiful animals through a year in the British Columbia wilderness―catching fish, eating berries, climbing trees and taking long naps.
    Book, 2017[Victoria, British Columbia] : Orca Book Publishers, 2017 — J599.78 MCA
  • Bears are incredible creatures. Did you know that they can sleep for months on end? Or that they hum when they are happy? Discover ten reasons why bears are amazing and five ways you can show they love them in this gorgeous picture book.
    Book, 2018Minneapolis, MN, USA : Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of the Quarto Group, 2018 — J599.78 BAR
  • Young children are naturally curious about animals. "Tell Me Why Bears Hibernate" offers answers to their most compelling questions about why bears sleep all winter.
    Book, 2015Ann Arbor, Michigan : Cherry Lake Publishing, [2015] — J599.78 GRA
  • Salmon Run.

    An Epic Journey to the Ocean and Back

    Chen, Annie,
    She begins as a tiny orange egg smaller than a pea. Salmon Run follows a Pacific coho salmon as she begins her journey in the freshwater rivers of Washington State, travels to the vast Pacific Ocean, and finally returns to the place of her birth to…
    Book, 2025Brooklyn. NY : Red Comet Press, 2025 — J597.56 CHE
  • The bear’s hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, whether they have seen it. Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others. Just as the bear begins to despond, a deer…
    Picture Book, 2011Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2011 — J PICTURE BOOK KLA
  • Bears

    What Do Polar Bears, Giant Pandas, and Grizzly Bears Get Up to All Day?

    Hardeman, Don W., Jr.,
    Journey into forests around the world to follow the lives of these furry creatures as they play, hunt, and fight their way through their day. Biologist and black bear expert Don Hardeman Jr. tells the story of the world’s most amazing bears in the…
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Neon Squid, 2023 — J599.78 HAR
  • Can you eat like a bear? Follow a brown bear as she paws, claws, and munches her way through the months of the year. She's filling up for the long winter ahead, when, while hibernating, she'll welcome two new cubs to her cozy den.
    Picture Book, 2013New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2013 — J PICTURE BOOK SAY
  • Follow a bear cub and its family as they prepare to hibernate for the winter. Through engaging text features, such as the vocabulary tree and the wrap-up activity, kids will be introduced to vocabulary in concept groups, helping them make…
    Book plus CD, 2015Washington, DC : National Geographic, c2015 — JBOOK/CD ALI
  • Teddy Fitzroy, his family, and some other FunJungle employees have been invited to visit a bison ranch just outside Yellowstone National Park that FunJungle’s owner, J.J. McCracken, is considering purchasing. The ranch’s endangered bison have been…
    Book, 2021New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2021] — JFICTION GIBBS
  • Readers will learn about the impressive migration of five different Pacific salmon species. Why and when do they migrate? How far do they migrate? Where do they migrate?
    Book, 2018Minneapolis, Minnesota : Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO, [2018] — J597.56 HAN

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