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Twelve Kinds of Ice

Name: Twelve Kinds of Ice
ISBN: 9780544555549

Paperback – Picture Book, November 3, 2015

Ellen Bryan Obed

HarperCollins · Paperback · November 3, 2015

Reading lane: Ice Skating Stories

With the first ice—a skim on a sheep pail so thin, it breaks when touched—one family’s winter begins in earnest.

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Who It's For

Readers drawn to lyrical depictions of winter and changing ice

Book Details

Authors: Ellen Bryan Obed
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: November 3, 2015
Format: Paperback
Theme: Ice Skating Stories · Winter Sports
Reading lane: Ice Skating Stories

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Christmas & Advent
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Canadian Stories
Imagination & Play
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About This Book

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-winnin...

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