A magical story from Mark Haddon, author of the phenomenally best-selling The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time When the children wake up one morning the air is silent and the room is full of soft blue light."It's snowed!" says Alice."It's like the North Pole! It is the first big snowfall of the year and for Alice, Jess and Robin it means a day off school. They can't wait to to put on their scarves and hats, woolly gloves and wellingtons and go out to dig, play and explore. But before they go Dad gives them a warning: "You might just come across the Ice Bear's cave." And so begins an icy adventure in which somewhere hidden under the deepest snowdrifts by the barn, sleeping and dreaming of Arctic skies and frozen seas, is the ICE BEAR!

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 2 years.

There are 32 pages in this book.

This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+).

This book was published in 2002 by HarperCollins Publishers .

MARK HADDON has written numerous picture books, including Sea of Tranquility, The Ice Bear's Cave, and Ocean Star Express. Karen Wallace has written 60 books for children. Her book Think of an Eel won the Kurt Maschler award, the Times Educational Supplement Award and, in the US, the Parent's Choice Gold Award and the Blue Ribbon Award. Karen also writes for children's television. She lives in Herefordshire. The Illustrator David Axtell is the winner of the Smarties prize for Fruit. He lives in Cornwall.