Twelve kinds of ice / by Ellen Bryan Obed ; illustrated by Barbara McClintock.
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TextPublication details: Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2012.Description: 64 p. : ill. ; 18 cmISBN: - 0618891293 (hbk.)
- 9780618891290 (hbk.)
- 12 kinds of ice
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Obed Ell | Available | 33111007107457 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"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.
From the first ice, a thin skin on a bucket of water, through thickly-iced fields, streams, and gardens, a girl, her family, and friends anticipate and enjoy a winter of skating, ending with an ice show complete with costumes, refreshments, and clowns.