Audiobook26 minutes
Twelve Kinds of Ice
Written by Ellen Bryan Obed
Narrated by Jessica Almasy
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
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About this audiobook
An award-winning author with numerous children's books to her credit, Ellen Bryan Obed has garnered starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal for Twelve Kinds of Ice. In 20 short chapters, Obed introduces the many kinds of ice that follow one family through winter. Whether enjoying the first thin sheet in a sheep's pail or a frozen streambed perfect for skating, this family finds excitement and fun in each new appearance.
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Reviews for Twelve Kinds of Ice
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A lovely book with poetic wording and writing. Could be set in any true winter community, but I expect is set in Maine as that is where the author is from.The book has a wonderful gentle pace and expressions that truly capture all the glory and excitement of having your own rink in your back yard and all the activity that comes along with it.It is a quick read but would be a wonderful parent and child read together or just before bed story for young children...or those who are still young at heart and nostalgic for days gone by.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This novel, set in Maine, reminds me so much of my ice-skating escapades while growing up in Connecticut. My brother and sister, our neighbors and I tested the ice on the small pond in the field until we new it was ready and safe. Sometimes it was so clear we could see through it like a window to another world, that of sunfish and salamanders, still active under the ice. Clear ice was usually smooth and ideal for skating. Other times it was milky-white and bumpy; our teeth rattled as we skated over icy ridges and once I tripped on a twig standing upright in the ice and split my lip. If a dry snow fell, we could sweep the ice clear with a broom, but if it was wet, we were through with skating. In a really cold winter, the larger lakes froze over and our parents came with us to skate longer and farther. I never skated at a rink or indoors as a child. To me, skating was, and still is, an outdoor activity, entrenched in the natural world.I loved Obed's book for bringing back these wonderful memories and introducing me to a family and community of skaters. Her prose is often beautiful: "The morning field ice came was like no other. Ice froze upon our day, and at school we could not think clearly - math and geography and reading were frozen solid." (p. 14). She uses words most creatively: "Then we'd follow Dad again until the stream SMALLED to a brook of bent alders." (p. 16, capitalization emphasis mine) Her analogies are lovely, as in this ode to silver: "We sped to silver speeds at which lungs and legs, clouds and sun, wind and cold, raced 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." (p. 19). McLintock's black and white drawings contribute additional grace and spirit. My favorite is on page 17, where the two girls are weaving along the meanders of the brook lined with bent alders.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Anyone who ever grew up in an area where you could count on ice covered lakes each winter will greatly appreciate this book. It made me feel nostalgic about the lake community where I grew up. We too had many different kinds of ice and Ms. Obed describes them all so vividly it makes me want to lace of my skates and join the kids on the lake. I especially loved black ice. It was rare, but oh so perfect for skating. Thank you for reminding me of my childhood.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really like this, but I'm a little stumped when thinking about which kids I'd give this to from my public library. Maybe the kids who like Judy Moody, Clemetine, et al and also like ice skating? It's a lovely remembrance of Obed's childhood ice experiences, but the sizing makes it seem more like a gift book than anything else. McClintock's illustrations are lovely and fit the old-fashioned mood to a tee.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beautifully written and elegantly told.