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Twelve Kinds of Ice
By Obed, Ellen Bryan
- ISBN
- 978-0-618-89129-0
- Publisher
- Houghton (Houghton Mifflin Trade and Reference Division)
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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on November 1, 2012
In this joyous set of prose poems we follow a family through a winter, from first ice to black ice (“water shocked still by the cold before the snow”) and from field ice to dream ice, enjoying, along the way, ice plucked from the top of a bucket (“we had seen it coming in the close, round moon”), a homemade hockey rink, a goofy dad’s ice c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012 | Younger Fiction
These joyous prose poems follow a family through a winter, from first ice to a goofy dad's ice capades. In Obed's lilt...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on December 1, 2012
A tribute to the coldest months of the year that is filled with a remarkable amount of warmth. Ellen Bryan Obed’s vivid prose transports the reader to a magical snow globe of a world where the glory of nature and the simple joys of childhood take center stage. The first-person-plural narratio...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
