Pearl's New Skates

Holly Keller

Harper Collins, 2005 - Fiction - 24 pages

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?

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Pearl's New Skates
• Author: Holly Keller
• Illustrated by: Holly Keller
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2005
• ISBN: 0060562803, 9780060562809
• Length: 24 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Sports; Juvenile Fiction / Animals / General; Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories; Juvenile Fiction / Sports & Recreation / Ice Skating