Twelve Kinds of Ice
“This is a joyful, spirited gem of a book, as bracing and glorious as a perfect stretch of ice.” –Newbery Honor author Joyce Sidman With the first ice—a skim on a sheep pail so thin it breaks when touched—one family’s winter begins in earnest. Next comes ice like panes of glass. And eventually,...
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“This is a joyful, spirited gem of a book, as bracing and glorious as a perfect stretch of ice.” –Newbery Honor author Joyce Sidman With the first ice—a skim on a sheep pail so thin it breaks when touched—one family’s winter begins in earnest. Next comes ice like panes of glass. And eventually, skating ice! Take a literary skate over field ice and streambed, through sleeping orchards and beyond. The first ice, the second ice, the third ice . . . perfect ice . . . the last ice . . . Twelve kinds of ice are carved into twenty nostalgic vignettes, illustrated in elegantly scratched detail by the award-winning Barbara McClintock.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780618891290 (0618891293)
Publish date: November 6th 2012
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 64
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Realistic Fiction,
Juvenile,
Middle Grade,
Environment,
Nature,
Family,
Picture Books,
Sports And Games,
Sports,
Chapter Books
This was rare for me. I was so sucked into the nostalgia of this book, that I felt like I had to read some of the reviews on goodreads before writing my own. Usually I don't check in like that before writing, because I like to write based on my aesthetic response. The best thing I found by reading t...
Charming short kids book that celebrates winter and the ice that forms in deep winter. No specific setting but it didn't surprise me to find the author is from Maine-it just has that New England feel to it. This short book is a great way to introduce kids to think about different kinds of one subjec...
Charming short kids book that celebrates winter and the ice that forms in deep winter. No specific setting but it didn't surprise me to find the author is from Maine-it just has that New England feel to it. This short book is a great way to introduce kids to think about different kinds of one subjec...
The world this book describes is so alien to me that it might as well be set in Kathmandu. As a life-long Texan I admit that I am not very well acquainted with ice and snow. And the little I do know about it has done little to entice me. I honestly can't imagine living with it day in and day out for...
Beautifully written and elegantly told.
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