Cecil the Pet Glacier
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
In a starred review Publishers Weekly raves: "It’s an avant-garde, surrealist story with a Hollywood-style tearjerker lurking within—and a surprisingly charming and affecting one at that."
Award-winning poet Matthea Harvey and illustrator extraordinaire Giselle Potter team up to create an indescribably unique picture book about wanting to be normal, then coming to appreciate being different. Ruby would love to be like everyone else—not easy when you have a tiara-wearing mother and a father who spends his time trimming outrageous topiary. She'd also like to get a nice normal pet, maybe a dog. Then, on a family vacation to Norway, she finds herself adopted by a small, affectionate glacier. How Cecil, as the ice pet is named, proves himself to Ruby—risking his own meltdown—is a story sure to thrill and delight young readers.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Potter's (The Orphan: A Cinderella Story from Greece) eerie, solemn portraits are an inspired choice for Harvey's (The Little General and the Giant Snowflake) tale of a misunderstood child and her equally misunderstood glacier. Lonely Ruby has flamboyantly eccentric parents who run a topiary and tiara business; their cheerful displays of weirdness embarrass her daily. A family trip to Norway nets Ruby a pet, a pint-size glacier named Cecil who follows her everywhere; Ruby who wanted a dog scorns him. When she locks Cecil out of her room, "He would nudge the door, leaving a wet patch below the doorknob. After a bit, he would slide sadly back to his cooler." Cecil will charm readers from the start, but it's not until he performs a daring rescue and nearly melts in the process that Ruby realizes how wrong she's been. "Help!" she orders, calling for his staple food. "I need some ice water and a plate of pebbles!" It's an avant-garde, surrealist story with a Hollywood-style tearjerker lurking within and a surprisingly charming and affecting one at that. Ages 4 8.
