The Ice Horse

by Candace Christiansen

Book Overview

A young boy learns the danger and excitement of the ice harvest in the Hudson River Valley. This book is illustrated with beautiful paintings capturing life from a bygone era. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803714009
• ISBN13: 9780803714007
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.8" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

beautiful illustrations complement a beautiful story

Candace Christiansen's The Ice Horse is a poignant tale of a boy's first winter helping cut the ice. The beautiful illustrations complement the story and help children understand a piece of the life of ordinary citizens of the past. The boy's empathy with the horse, too, encourages empathy in the reader. I highly recommend this story.

How did we keep things cold before refrigerators?

This children's book is a look back in time at the annual 'industry' of ice cutting, and how one youngster helped out, day and night, to cut ice for the coming summer. The story is factual and gripping, told by the youngster learning this man's work. The illustrations are wonderful. For children who ask "what was it like when you were young, Grandma" and are astonished at all the things we didn't have then and now take for granted, this story will be very appealing.