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Twelve Kinds of Ice

by Ellen Bryan Obed

A winter measured in ice

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A winter measured in ice

A family’s winter unfolds through changing surfaces of ice, from a fragile skim on a sheep pail to the conditions for skating and, finally, the season’s last ice. Twenty brief vignettes mark twelve kinds of ice, with scenes that include fields, streams and sleeping orchards. The seasonal progression gives the book its shape, while Barbara McClintock’s illustrations are described as finely scratched in detail. Together, the text and images frame winter through small changes in the landscape and the family’s outdoor surroundings.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Children ages 4–8 interested in winter and outdoor settings
  • Young readers who enjoy books organized as a series of short vignettes
  • Families looking for a picture book about ice and seasonal change

Themes

Winter and seasonal changeIce and skatingFamily lifeRural landscapes

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Book overview

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 streams, 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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