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PICTURE BOOKS

d'Aulaire, Ingri , d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin

Ola

56 pp. | Minnesota | November, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8166-9017-6 $16.95
Reissue (1932, Doubleday)

(3) K-3 This imaginative tale follows young Ola, who skis away from his forest home and encounters animals, other children, a wedding party, a peddler trading with an indigenous tribe, and Arctic fishermen who share folktales with him. In this well-designed reissue, Scandinavian culture comes alive in the decorative simplicity of the detailed black-and-white and color illustrations and lyrical text by these master storytellers.

Reviewer: Cynthia K. Ritter | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2014