Immi lives up in the frozen north, a land of ice and snow.
It is cold and icy – a white world as flat as the eye can see. Immi goes ice
fishing for her supper in this lonely place, and instead of a fish, she catches
a little wooden bird. How strange!
You can’t eat a little wooden bird, can you? [Show pages 5-6]. But it’s beautiful, and
she wears it on her necklace, next to her little white wooden bear. Those two
make an odd pair: don’t they, the colorful bird and the white bird. They’re
very different, as if they’ve never met one another.
[Turn the page.]
Color starts to seep into her world. She fishes a red flower! [Turn page.] Then an orange starfish … a
green leaf ….a purple feather. Where is all this color coming from?
Look at her igloo! It’s the brightest thing in the land. Her
world doesn’t seem as cold and lonely anymore. Where on earth did that little
colorful wooden bird come from? What does all of this mean for Immi?
Immi’s Gift by
Karin Littlewood. 2010: Peachtree. Unpaged. Booktalk to K-2. Virginia Readers’
Choice, 2012-2013 (Primary).
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