Polar bear the polar bear in advertising, while Fox's Glacier Mints have featured a polar bear named Peppy as the brand mascot since 1922. Polar bears are popular in fiction, particularly in books for children or teenagers. For example, "The Polar Bear Son" is adapted from a traditional Inuit tale. The animated television series "Noah's Island" features a polar bear named Noah as the protagonist. Polar bears feature prominently in "East" (also released as "North Child") by Edith Pattou, "The Bear" by Raymond Briggs (adapted into an animated short in 1998), and Chris d'Lacey's "The Fire Within" series. The "panserbjørne" of Philip
2011 Svalbard polar bear attack 2011 Svalbard polar bear attack The 2011 Svalbard polar bear attack was an attack by a starving polar bear on a group of school children and their chaperones, the bear killed one person and was then shot. On 5 August 2011, a starving polar bear in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard attacked a party of school children, organised by the British Schools Exploring Society (BSES), who had camped near the Von Post glacier, some 25 miles (40 km) from the settlement of Longyearbyen. The bear was reported as being starving and emaciated. The BSES party of eighty members had planned