Latitudes of Melt

Latitudes of MeltBy: Joan Clark This bountiful, magical novel opens with the discovery by two fishermen of a baby floating in a cradle on an ice pan in the North Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912. To the small fishing community into which the foundling is adopted, Aurora, as they name her with her shock of white hair, one blue eye and one brown is clearly enchanted. But it is not until Aurora is herself an old woman that she learns the heart wrenching

the unnamed narrator moves through a mosaic of life

互動遊戲書：「酷酷熊和熊爸爸系列」、「魔法繪本系列」

educated women for whom becoming a governess was the only respectable career open in Victorian society

her witty and honest articles challenged readers to see the world through her eyes

a whaling ship embarked on what could be its last voyage

He loves their dark

• 依照學校測考模式設計

" and shows how the party's vaunted commitment to fiscal responsibility has been a charade since the 1980s

”—Quartz

she never forgets his birthday

曾以《和六個老人同住的男孩》獲第三屆Pinpoint繪本大賽優秀賞。

little hands can move the story onto the next scene and bring the rhyming text to life