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Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George
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Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow

by Jessica Day George

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A nice retelling of a Norse myth, with overtones of Beauty and the Beast and Eros and Psyche. You never quite forget it's a retelling when you're reading it though.
mangochris | Jun 10, 2009 |  
A mix of the tale Beauty and the Beast and one of the norse myths, Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow really took my breath away. The main character is a girl whose own mother did not give her a name. She lives in a wintery land where there is rarely enough food to eat. One day an enchanted bear comes and bids her to live with him for a year and she accepts, with the agreement that her family will become rich. A must read for those who love fairy tales. ( )
knielsen83 | Mar 5, 2009 |  
Set in a frigid, mythical North and based on a Nordic fairy tale, this magical story of a girl simply known as "the lass" will captivate readers from beginning to end. It will be epecially appealing to younger teen girls, with its lovely, brave heroine and its emphasis on romantic mythology.

The "lass" has gone through life with no name, despised by her mother, able to speak with animals. Her family always seems to be hungry and cold, so when a great white bear appears on her doorstep one particularly bad winter, offering her and her family riches untold if she agrees to stay in his castle for one year and one day, the lass feels she cannot refuse. She is swept into a fairytale adventure that abounds with mystery and magic, and when the world she has come to know crumbles around her, she plucks up the courage to follow her love to the ends of the earth in order to save him. Her journey will eventually take her beyond all civilization, to the topmost part of the world where ice and snow meet sun and moon, and where the mystery of the white bear will be finally be resolved. ( )
molliewatts | Sep 5, 2008 |  
Following the tradition of Norse Myths, this story relates the adventures of a girl with no name who speaks to animals and sets off on adventure to live with a talking bear in an ice palace for a year. ( )
dbanna | Jul 2, 2008 |  
A Scandanavian fairy tale (a version of Beauty and the Beast) brought to life. The protagonist is the youngest girl in the family whose parents don't name her. The setting is a rural Scandanavia of times past when the superstitions of troll and magical animals are realities. The protagaonist learns to speak with animals and finds a name through her kindness; however, her skill leads her to mystical palace with fairy tale servants. There she meets an isboren, a magical bear--but there is much more to him than meets the eye. ( )
teacherddunn | Jun 16, 2008 |  
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For my parents: You gave me life, you gave me love, you gave me a plane ticket to Norway. Thank you.
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Long ago and far away in the land of ice and snow, there came a time when it seemed that winter would never end.
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