This magical picture book tells the story of Emily, a little girl who watches graceful skaters on an icy pond and wishes she could skate with them. She gathers her courage and gives ice skating a try, but quickly finds out how difficult it is. She struggles and wobbles, and finally loses her balance and has a fall. But Emily doesn't give up. She begins to make progress when she goes to skating class, and after much practice Emily is ready to take part in an ice dancing show. Each of this attractive book's illustrations includes tabs for young readers to pull and wheels for them to turn. These features add movement to the illustrations and animate Emily's progress as an ice dancer. The book's final two-page spread presents a spectacular pop-up, in which Emily, star of the ice dancing show, actually performs a spin before a cheering audience.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 3-6 years.

There are 10 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Barron's Educational Series .

Richard Ferguson is one of the most experieced paper engineers in children's books. He is best known for his work on Ricky Gervais' Flanimals. Kate Lee is the author of several children's books. Her previous work includes the extremely successful pop-up books, SNAPPY LITTLE NUMBERS and SNAPPY LITTLE COLOURS (Templar), which have sold over six million copies worldwide. She has previously written the SANTA touch-and-feel series for Campbell Books, which have sold over 250, 000 copies worldwide. Rosalinda Kightley studied at Kingston University and has been an illustrator for over 20 years. Prior to this she worked as a children's book designer. She has illustrated books for Walker Books and Usborne, amongst others. This is her first title for Campbell Books. She has three children and lives in Guildford.