It’s when April challenges someone who is questioning what impact she, as a little girl, can make. This just makes my heart sing because one of my primary goals behind The Last Bear has always been to empower our children to find their roar and know that no-one is too small to make a difference.īut it’s not just a book for the classroom. There’s a line in the book which a lot of readers seem to pick up on. Many teachers have already used the book in the classroom to showcase the dramatic loss of sea-ice in the Arctic and how this is impacting the polar bear population. Once I discovered this – there really was only one story to tell – and that was April’s desperate quest to take Bear home. But these days, because of the melting ice-caps polar bears can no longer reach the island which bears their name. I set the book on a real-life Arctic Island called Bear Island – so-called because of the polar bears which once lived there.
The Last Bear is a book very close to my heart and is basically about everything I love most in the world – nature, the planet and that unique, instinctive bond that especially exists between children and animals.Īlthough, it’s first and foremost an adventure story, there is a very important environmental message to the book – and this reflects my values and my own attempts to live as greenly as possible. Could you share a little about what inspired you to write it, and what you hope readers take from it? The Last Bear deals with important issues that are very relevant right now and close to a lot of people’s hearts. HarperCollins (my wonderful publisher) describe it as a celebration of the love between a child and an animal, a battle cry for the environment and an irresistible adventure with a heart as big as a bear’s.
Determined to save him, so begins the most important journey of April’s life. He is starving, lonely and a long way from home. There are supposedly no polar bears left but one endless summer’s night April spots something distinctly bear-shaped loping across the horizon. The Last Bear is the story of 11-year-old April who accompanies her scientist father to a remote Arctic island. Could you tell us a little about your novel, The Last Bear?
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