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.

Twelve Kinds of Ice

Children's Books

OBED, Ellen Bryan

Literature & Fiction

Clarion Books

Who would like a Christmas tree? That all depends on when you ask. In January, in February, in March, in April . . . the black-capped chickadees, the field mice, the white-tailed deer, and the woodcock, come to claim the tree. They want it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, for shelter and protection, for a place to start a new family. Can a Christmas tree be all that? Yes, and even more . . . The year has just begun!

Who Would Like a Christmas Tree?: A Tree for All Seasons

Animals

“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.

Holidays & Celebrations

HMH Books for Young Readers

Retells in rhyme how a creature named Borrowed Black made of borrowed things himself, borrowed the moon one night, causing great consternation for all living things

Borrowed Black (Labrador Fantasy)

Ideals Childrens Books

In rhyming couplets, Obed tells the ballad-like tale of Borrowed Black, an imaginary creature who lives on the coast of Labrador. Borrowed Black, a huge being made of parts borrowed from other creatures, has bear paws, seaweed hair, seashell ears, wolf eyes, a gull nose, seal flipper feet, and a wind heart. The borrowed parts that form the Frankenstein-like creature are held together by wind. One night, greedy Borrowed Black borrows the silver moon, and when it breaks, he buries the "billion and four" pieces in the sea and the land is cloaked in darkness. Seventeen seasons pass, but one night an eclectic crew of personified characters, who sail a boat built in the back of whale, finds Borrowed Black's shack. They steal Borrowed Black's sack of wind and negotiate a trade the moon pieces for the sack of wind. However, Borrowed Black's demise is inevitable when the wind, "thoughtful of night and its kin," remains with the moon to hold the pieces together. As night turns to day, Borrowed Black is no more as his borrowed pieces blow away.

Borrowed Black

Breakwater Books

A Letter from the Snow

Maine Writers & Pubs Alliance

Retells in rhyme how a creature named Borrowed Black, made of borrowed things himself, borrowed the moon one night, causing great consternation for all living things

Borrowed Black: A Labrador Fantasy

Mogensen, Jan

Gareth Stevens Pub.

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Twelve Kinds of Ice

Who Would Like a Christmas Tree?: A Tree for All Seasons

Twelve Kinds of Ice

Borrowed Black (Labrador Fantasy)

Borrowed Black

A Letter from the Snow

Borrowed Black: A Labrador Fantasy