Review: A Charming Book about Arctic Foxes:
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 27, 2013
This delightful book has plenty of photos of arctic foxes - at play, hunting, resting, with white coats, with brown coats, young pups, the vixens (adult females), reynards (adult males), etc.  Photos are on most pages; reading about the fox's round body and seeing it at the same time adds to the learning.These foxes are about the size of a domestic cat but are in decline.  Their numbers ebb and flow with the availability of food.  However, recently scientists have found a new reason for their decline - high levels of mercury.They ingest mercury through eating young seals, marine birds and fish - which already have high levels of mercury.My only criticism is about how many times some info was repeated; perhaps the author was afraid that we adults couldn't absorb so much info at one time. This is an informative and highly readable book on a unique subject. Both adults and children will enjoy it.