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32 pp.
| Sterling |
October, 2016 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4549-2101-1$14.95
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Fiona Woodcock.
Snow-loving polar bear Miki finds a playmate--a girl who first appears to him as "a dot in the snow" (because of her red parka). When the snow obscures their path, a "Mommy Dot" rescues the girl, and Miki goes home to his own mother on the ice. The book's appeal isn't the story, which is rather slight, but the cross-species friendship and Woodcock's lovely, gauzy-white-surfaced illustrations.