As Snowzilla hits the US, the Book Doctor picks out children’s and teen books that celebrate the magical power of ice and snow to transform landscape and lives, from Arthur Ransome’s Winter Holiday to Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising
Whenever ice comes it seems to change the world which makes it seem very powerful. Are there any good books about how ice changes things and in what way?
Ice, like snow, changes the look and feel of the world and creates new possibilities. Its sudden arrival, and its extraordinary formation and transparency, give it a magical aura. It also creates new dangers – terrible dangers which are particularly risky because the ice itself is so attractive. And that’s all in the real world.
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