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Pearl's new skates

Pearl's birthday skates have a single blade and learning to use them is harder than she expects. Pearl has new skates. They are real skates (not double runners), and she can't wait to try them. Pearl inches out onto the frozen pond. But instead of twirling, she topples. Instead of spinning...

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Main Author: Keller, Holly.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Greenwillow Books, c2005.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Persistence > Juvenile fiction.
Ice skating > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: Pearl's birthday skates have a single blade and learning to use them is harder than she expects. Pearl has new skates. They are real skates (not double runners), and she can't wait to try them. Pearl inches out onto the frozen pond. But instead of twirling, she topples. Instead of spinning, she falls -- splaaat! Pearl has new skates. They are shiny white with red tassels, and she loves them. Will Pearl ever skate in real life the way she skates in her dreams?
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Audience: Presch up.
Awards: A Junior Library Guild selection.
ISBN: 0060562803 (trade)
0060562811 (lib. bdg.) :
Author Notes: Holly Keller is the author-illustrator of more than thirty-five books for young children including the Horace books, Farfallina and Marcel, Help!, and Grandfather's Dream. She has also illustrated over twenty nonfiction titles written by others including the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science Books series. She won the 2003 Charlotte Zolotow Award.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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