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32 pp.
| Clarion |
October, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-618-15960-6$$16.00
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Ted Rand.
A young girl describes how every year members of her small town, including prison inmates (one is her uncle), build an ice palace for a winter carnival. The narrator makes a somewhat heavy-handed suggestion that the prisoners get a new perspective on life through their involvement with the carnival, but otherwise the book, featuring Rand's frosty watercolors, has a light, lyrical touch.