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32 pp.
| Holt |
January, 2016 |
TradeISBN 978-1-62779-104-5$17.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Lee White.
In the Arctic winter a girl and her grandfather bemoan the lack of color: everything is a shade of white and the days are as dark as night. But hope returns one night when, from the top of a hill, they view the swirling colors of the aurora borealis. The text is lyrical and evocative, but the book depends on some questionable assumptions about Arctic cultures.