Twelve Kinds of Ice

About this book

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 icea skim on a sheep pail so thin it breaks when touchedone familys 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.