Twelve Kinds of ice

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	J Fiction / Obed, Ellen Bryan	4-week checkout	Due 04-30-2024

From the first ice, a thin skin on a bucket of water, through thickly-iced fields, streams, and gardens, a girl, her family, and friends anticipate and enjoy a winter of skating, ending with an ice show complete with costumes, refreshments, and clowns.

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Wonderful illustrations submitted by camelsamba on August 15, 2013, 10:46pm As someone who grew up in the desert and only ever experienced "first ice" (a skin of ice so thin it breaks when you touch it), I am enchanted with the notion of 12 kinds of ice. I'm enchanted by the obsession with skating and the progression of ice. Now that I live in Michigan, I am always vaguely terrified to see people skating on lakes or other bodies of water, but I could go for a backyard garden rink. If we had a backyard of any size, that is!

Best paragraph (in the black ice section):
"We sped to silver speeds at which lungs and legs, clouds and sun, wind and cold, race together. Our blades spit out silver. Our lungs breathed out silver. Our minds burst with silver while the winter sun danced silver down our bending backs.”