Lars loves to help, but sometimes his exuberance causes more harm than good.

When a young polar bear peers inside a train, the little Siberian tiger staring back at him pleads to be taken home.

Lars, the young Polar Bear, awakens to a warm morning in the North Pole. Taking the opportunity to further explore the land near his home, he stumbles upon a Cormorant and a group of Whales who are in trouble. Highlighting not only the importance of teamwork and friendship, but also a moral metaphor for the effect humanity is having on the environment, 'Little Polar Bear and the Whales' is an enjoyable trip to the North Pole. AUTHOR: Hans de Beer was born in Muiden, a small town near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. He studied illustration at the Rietveld Academy of Art in Amsterdam.

While hunting with his father, a young polar bear drifts out to sea and ends up in a jungle where a friendly hippopotamus helps him return home.

Lars, a little polar bear, learns to swim.

Lars, a little Polar Bear, and Otto the great musk ox help Oliver the little reindeer find his mother when he gets separated from her during a snowstorm.

Kurt Larson has developed an epic mining exploration novel in the pages of Under the Batholith. The principal character is a young mining engineer called Lars Svensson, down on his luck in Wyoming, having being fired over an office affair with an older woman. A big oil company, desperate for success in its newly acquired mining interests, selects him to represent their interests on a gold exploration site on the Isle of Mull in Scotland. How Lars gets there, who he meets and what he finds is the stuff of great adventure. Kurt Larson's exciting style of writing and eye for detail will keep you turning the pages to find how greed gets the better of people.