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Ice Cycle: Poems about the Life of Ice
By Maria Gianferrari and Jieting Chen
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Pancake ice, floebergs, glaciers, icicles . . . cold temperatures create an astonishing variety of ice forms!
From Maria Gianferrari, award-winning author of Play Like an Animal!,comes a beautiful collaboration between verse and science. Brief poems and ethereal illustrations introduce readers to the many different types of ice on land and at sea. Fascinating back matter provides additional information about water as a solid, liquid, and gas, as well as more details about the unique forms of ice mentioned in the poems. Celebrate winter with this evocative and atmospheric exploration of ice!
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Maria Gianferrari
Maria Gianferrari’s work has appeared in various national children’s magazines, and she was the winner of PEN New England’s 2009 Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award. You can learn more about her at www.mariagianferrari.com.
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