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Patrick Poib's Igloos

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Patrick Poib is a fun loving little polar bear. Patrick lives in Greenland in the icy cold tundra with his mother Polly Poib, and his dad, Pete Poib. In their little igloo they play around, eat and sleep, but when they are not in their igloo they are out cloud gazing, on the weekends. They always eat either fresh caught fish for all of their meals, or they eat yummy Eskimos that hunt caribous. Polly and Pete have the same job, they’re igloo builders. Polly designs the houses, and Pete builds them. Patrick goes to school and walks home or takes the sled with his friend Linda the lemming. The Poibs, at the end of the day, meet up in their igloo and eat lunch all together.
One day a strange thing happened, more than strange, it was almost something that has never happened in Greenland; Patrick’s house started to melt. It was during summer, which is not very hot though, but still sunny, but this has never happened before. Greenland’s normal temperature outside is -27° Celsius to 5° Celsius; it is always cold! Now the sun is getting even stronger, and it has reached the highest it has ever been in Greenland! It was during the night when Patrick’s igloo started melting, the first sign of it was the water dripping from the ceiling; it only dripped on Patrick, but he ignored it. The next night Patrick was soaking wet and his home was wearing out and barely had a ceiling anymore; the Poib family woke up in the middle of the night, and saw the dark sky and the dwarf trees surrounding

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