This deceptively simple story tells how a young Inuit girl fishes through an ice-hole and is suprised to snag a little wooden bird which she ties to her necklace. She decorates her igloo with other treasures that become attached to her fishing line until her white world is full of colour. When the ice begins to melt signalling the time for departure, she drops a little white bear into the hole. Far away, on a sunny beach on the other side of the world, a young boy throws something into the waves before catching sight of a tiny carved white bear washed up on the sand. He hangs it around his neck where once he wore a little wooden bird - so completing a circle of global interconnectedness and pointing to the similarities between children everywhere.