Best Selling Books by Ellen Bryan Obed

“This is a joyful, spirited gem of a book, as bracing and glorious as a perfect stretch of ice.” –Newbery Honor author Joyce Sidman With the first ice—a skim on a sheep pail so thin it breaks when touched—one family’s winter begins in earnest. Next comes ice like panes of glass. And eventually, skating ice! Take a literary skate over field ice and streambed, through sleeping orchards and beyond. The first ice, the second ice, the third ice . . . perfect ice . . . the last ice . . . Twelve kinds of ice are carved into twenty nostalgic vignettes, illustrated in elegantly scratched detail by the award-winning Barbara McClintock.

In this beautifully illustrated book, young readers discover how Christmas trees share their gifts with woodland creatures, season by season. Full color.

Retells how a creature named Borrowed Black, made of borrowed things himself, borrowed the moon one night, causing great consternation in all living things.

A collection of poems that reflect the sights, sounds, and experiences familiar to children on Canada''s northeastern shores.

Little Snowshoe hunts for his mother through the snowy landscape until she finds him.

Anderman Zwart kan alleen bestaan door van anderen te lenen. Wanneer hij op een nacht echter de maan leent, gaat hij te ver. Prentenboek met tekst op rijm en paginagrote tekeningen in blauwe tinten.