Frost and Fable

Eleven-year-old Ivy discovers a glowing snow globe in her grandmother's study and falls inside a tiny frozen kingdom where the magical hearth-fire has gone out. She must relight it before the kingdom freezes solid — and before she is trapped inside forever.

Every winter, eleven-year-old Ivy visits her grandmother's cottage in the snowy hills. Grandma's study is Ivy's favorite room — the walls are lined with bookshelves, and on one long shelf sits a collection of beautiful snow globes. There are dozens of them, each showing a tiny village, forest, or castle inside.

Ivy loves to look at them, but Grandma always says the same thing: 'Look with your eyes, dear, never your hands.'

'But what if I am really, really careful?' Ivy asked once, reaching toward a globe with a tiny forest inside.

Grandma gently moved her hand away. 'Some things are more fragile than they look, snowflake.'

Ivy never argued, but she always wondered what it would feel like to hold one — to cup an entire little world in her palms.