Cecil, the Pet Glacier. A marvelous and mysterious picture book by Matthia Harvey.
My friend Ellen Harvey, an extraordinary artist in her own right, has a sister who is a poet. Which is about as cool as it gets, if you ask me. Their parents should be over the moon.
But I digress. Matthea Harvey (the poet) has recently published a beautifully weird and wonderful children’s book about a little girl who tries to be normal (despite the eccentricities of her parents, who make topiary and tiaras) but only raises her oddball profile when she is strongarmed into adopting a glacier as a pet.
Although one might say, “With parents like these, who needs a pet?”
Thoughtfully illustrated by Giselle Potter, this story of a girl who desperately wants to fit in but finally learns to embrace being different speaks to the first grader in all of us. Or the teenager. Or the new person in the office… there is a little bit of Ruby Small in us all.
Cecil The Pet Glacier is available at Sweet William, all the cool bookstores, and the big box style websites as well (of course.) Well worth the purchase, wherever you decide to shop.
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