Ice Age meets The Odyssey in an incredible journey about the most unlikely of friendships.

Ain't I never told you about the skittery-glittery? Imagine the whole night sky, flashing and roaring wiv colour. No words describe it.

Mr McCool is a polar bear on a mission: to escape the zoo and travel back to his true home - the North Pole. With a human boy and a furry side-kick for company, Mr McCool sets sail. But the waters hold secrets, and hidden dangers . . . Will they ever reach the dancing lights of the northern sky?

Witty, warm and full of fun this animal book by Jonathan Tulloch is as enchanting and skillfully crafted as his debut children's novel, I Am a Cloud, I can Blow Anywhere.

Praise for I Am a Cloud, I can Blow Anywhere:

`Touching and uplifiting' Funday Times `Captivating . . . Gripping' The Times

`Vivid' Observer

`The story leaps along, with skillful twists and turns' Books for Keeps `Moving and engrossing' The Sunday Times

This book has been graded for interest at 9+ years.

There are 304 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Egmont UK Ltd (eBooks) .

Jonathan Tulloch is the Royal Literary Fellow at Teeside University. He has had several novels published for adults: The Season Ticket, The Bonny Lad, The Lottery, Give Us This Day and The Winding Road. The Season Ticket was released as a major feature film under the title Purely Belter. Jonathan was the recipient of the Betty Trask Prize 2000 and the J. B. Priestley Award in 2004, and was on the TLS list of 20 best young writers. Mr McCool is his second book for children; his first was the highly acclaimed I Am a Cloud, I can Blow Anywhere. He lives in North Yorkshire with his wife, Shirley - also a writer - and their young son.