The Book of Cold, Ice, and Snow. Author: Ekaterina Stepanenko

What is winter? It is snowflakes, frost patterns on the window, New Year holidays, sleds, skates, skis. But winter is also a whole continent, Arctic expeditions, dog sled races, polar nights, and several ice ages. This book is a large dictionary of winter and everything wintery. Here, facts, stories, myths, and legends about ice, cold, and snow are collected in alphabetical order. Winter in this book is shown through the prism of different sciences: from astronomy to philosophy and from biology to history. Everything we love about winter and everything that captivates our imagination, the mysteries of nature and the dangerous adventures of the past, the laws of physics and fantastic fairy tales – all this is collected here, under one cover.

“The Book of Cold, Ice, and Snow” is an educational encyclopedia in an unusual format. Here, the most interesting facts about various phenomena and concepts related to winter are collected in alphabetical order. And all this is examined through the prism of different fields of knowledge: astronomy and physics, biology and history, mythology and geography… Many stories about winter and everything wintery await you, accompanied by beautiful atmospheric illustrations. An entertaining and educational read to broaden your horizons, which will brighten long winter evenings.

Author Ekaterina Stepanenko
Illustrator Polya Plavinskaya
ISBN (Publication) 978-5-905474-91-0
Age (Publication) 7+
Number of pages (Publication) 56

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