Awards
- NCTE Excellence in Poetry for Children
- NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts
Overview
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!
Full Product Details
Author: Maria Gianferrari ,
Jieting Chen
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint: Lerner Publishing Group
Dimensions:
Width: 27.60cm
, Height: 0.80cm
, Length: 23.20cm
Weight: 0.399kg
ISBN: 9781728436609
ISBN 10: 1728436605
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 04 October 2022
Recommended Age: From 7 to 8 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
From hummocks and bummocks to frazil and floebergs, an introduction in poems and explanatory notes to ice's many states and formations. Gianferrari's sonorous drifts of free verse are sometimes confusingly allusive on first reading--'Cat ice whorls / Swirl and twirl. / Brinicles sink, / Plume and bloom. // Pancake ice stacks / Smack and crack'--but make clearer sense after examining the illustrations and reading the extensive notes at the end. Readers who think ice in nature comes only in sheets, floating chunks, or icicles are in for an eye-opening experience as, in naturalistic vignettes and vistas, Chen depicts silky strands of hair ice around twigs and needle-thin spikes emerging from frozen ground; freezing seawater undergoing subtle color changes while crystallizing from 'frazil' to 'grease ice, ' 'nilas, ' and ultimately free-floating sea ice; and, when temperatures rise, aging into 'rotten' or 'candle' ice before melting to begin the 'ice cycle' again. Though the author neglects to note that water boils at 212 degrees only at sea level (and simplistically claims that it comes only in three states), she finishes off handsomely, listing types of terrestrial and marine ice (of which 'new' sea ice alone has seven); explaining how floebits, floebergs, brash ice, and growlers are distinguished by their size ranges; defining numerous other special terms; then closing with leads to books, videos, and science projects. Bundled-up human figures in the pictures are rare and small but do show variations in skin color. (This book was reviewed digitally.) A rewarding exploration of a common substance's complex nature.--Kirkus Reviews -- Journal (7/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)
Author Information
Maria Gianferrari is a community scientist, self-taught naturalist and bird nerd who holds an M.A. in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in English. She is the author of narrative nonfiction picture books which celebrate urban ecosystems, the natural world and our wild neighbors including Coyote Moon, Hawk Rising, Whoo-Ku Haiku: A Great Horned Owl Story, Be a Tree! and most recently, Bobcat Prowling. Maria lives with her scientist husband and Maple the dog in a house encircled by trees. Jieting Chen is an illustrator, animator and designer. With years of experience, she produced and directed several award-winning animation shorts. Her illustrations are strongly influenced by Asian paintings. She is based in New York.
