Take a stunning journey to the ends of the earth through the colorful, fluid motion of Photicular® technology. A phenomenon first seen in the bestsellers Safari and Ocean, Photicular technology uses sliding lenses and video imagery to display realistic living motion in the pages of a book. It’s like a movie to your hand.

Penguins waddle in their irresistibly happy way. A walrus lumbers around the snowy landscape. There’s a polar bear with her vigorous cubs. A beluga whale, breaching. A team of sled dogs sprinting immediately on the viewer. And the miracle of the Northern Lights, shimmering like a silk rainbow through the star-filled night.

National Geographic creator Carol Kaufmann brings the reader along on a voyage to the North and South Poles, and writes a full of life and informative essay for each and every image, including essential statistics for each and every animal, such as their size, range, habitat, and more.