



Skating Wild on an Inland Sea
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Let’s go! Experience the magic of skating on wild ice.
Two children wake up to hear the lake singing, then the wind begins wailing … or is it a wolf? They bundle up and venture out into the cold, carrying their skates. On the snow-covered shore, they spot tracks made by fox, deer, hare, mink, otter … and the wolf! In the bay, the ice is thick and smooth. They lace up their skates, step onto the ice, stroking and gliding, and the great lake sings again.
In her signature poetic style, Jean E. Pendziwol describes the exhilarating experience of skating on the wild ice of Lake Superior, including the haunting singing that occurs as the ice expands and contracts. Accompanied by Todd Stewart’s breathtaking illustrations, this book will make us all long to skate wild!
Key Text Features
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Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Striking, light- and shadow-filled winter landscapes by Stewart accompany evocative prose poetry by Pendziwol in this engrossing picture book. Lake Superior—a "vast inland sea"—makes a cracking noise, "the song of water/ held captive by winter." Hoping to "sing with Superior, too," the book's young narrator and another child venture out to skate. Inside a small house seen in the blue of dawn, the children wonder at breakfast whether another sound they hear is "the wailing wind—or is it a wolf?" It's the wind, they decide, before bundling up. In silkscreen-like digital spreads, the light next turns lemony, casting long shadows on the snow, where the two find wolf-prints, though the narrating child senses the animal "is long gone." Lacing their skates, the two are soon on the ice, seen from above, then from below, in this adults-free vision of life lived in harmony with the wild. The children's skin tones mirror the hue of the pages' changing light. Ages 3–6.