K-Gr 2–When Immi, an Inuit child, goes ice fishing, she is surrounded by a world of white. Hoping to catch just one more fish, instead she pulls up a brightly colored wooden bird, its vivid appearance in sharp contrast to the ice and snow swirling around her. She adds it to her necklace, next to a small white bear. On the days that follow, she fishes out other brightly colored objects and hangs them in her igloo until it is awash in color. Various polar animals are attracted, and Immi snuggles with them while they share stories of faraway lands. When the snow begins to melt, Immi departs, but before she goes she throws her small white bear into the ice-fishing hole. It is later retrieved from tropical waters by the boy who has been tossing his brightly colored creatures into the waves. The painterly illustrations done in colored pencil, watercolor, and gouache capture Immi's frozen world, and her little flight of fancy seems logical escapism for anyone living even briefly in such isolated and lonely circumstances. This might be a jumping-off point to discuss how the imagination can provide relief and comfort, but it's an additional purchase.Grace Oliff, Ann Blanche Smith School, Hillsdale, NJ
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When fishing in an expansive white landscape, a young Inuit finds a colorful wooden bird on the end of her line. Each following day brings a new talisman. As Immi strings them up around her igloo, the rainbow of objects attracts curious animals—polar bears, foxes, wolves, hares—who join Immi in her Igloo, share supper, and help her fill “those long dark nights with stories of faraway lands.” Then Immi’s igloo begins to melt, and before she moves along with her sled, she drops a polar-bear pendant from her necklace into a hole in the ice. Eventually, it finds its way across the ocean to a faraway tropical beach, where a young boy also throws a treasure of his own into the sea, wondering where it will go. Littlewood, whose artwork has been nominated for Britain’s Kate Greenaway Medal, contributes a serviceable text that doesn’t shine as brightly as her skilled, appealing watercolor-and-pencil illustrations. A warm story that emphasizes the interconnectedness of all beings on earth. Preschool-Grade 2. --Andrew Medlar

Way, way up north in a snow-covered, frozen world, a young girl breaks a hole in the ice and fishes for her supper. But instead of a fish, at the end of the line is a small, brightly painted wooden bird. She ties it onto her necklace, next to a small white bear.



Day after day her fishing pole brings up more colorful surprises from the swirling sea under the frozen ice. She decorates her igloo with the colorful treasures and animals come from far and wide to visit with her and share stories of faraway lands. On the last day she visits the fishing hole she drops the small bear from her necklace into the water.



Faraway, a young boy walks along a beach in the hot, hot sun. He throws something colorful into the water. Then something catches his eye. There washed up on the beach is a small wooden bear. ...



Karin Littlewood has crafted a simple, affecting story of how individuals around the world connect and even enrich each other s lives. Her beautiful, full-spread watercolor illustrations colorfully depict the story s shifting locations from the frozen Arctic to the tropical shoreline, and the vast and diverse world that exists below the sea.

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Immi是一个爱斯基摩小女孩，每天的生活都和鱼为伴。一次偶然的机会使她喜欢常常在水里收集一些各种各样的小玩意儿。她喜欢用这些小玩意儿装饰生活，使她觉得她的生活和生活在世界其他地方的小朋友一样。最终，她得到启发，将她最心爱的北极熊小饰物放入水中，和远方的小朋友分享他们喜欢的小东西。最后，一个在赤道附近，皮肤黑黑的小朋友拾到这个小宝贝……
《Booklist》评价说，这本书是“地球上所有的生命都是相互关联的”，生动的插图和迷人的文字时，使它的主题特别有效。要学会分享，才会有收获，最简单的礼物，带来最真的快乐。