<p><b><font></b><i><b>It sounded like a respectable and worthy enough death for an explorer ¿ tumbling from an ice bridge to be impaled upon a mammoth tusk ¿ but Stella really, really didn¿t want that to happen, just the same.</b></i><b></font></b><br><br>Join Stella Starflake Pearl and her three fellow explorers as they trek across the snowy Icelands and come face-to-face with frost fairies, snow queens, outlaw hideouts, unicorns, pygmy dinosaurs and carnivorous cabbages . . . <br><br>When Stella and three other junior explorers get separated from their expedition can they cross the frozen wilderness and live to tell the tale?<br><br>A gorgeously imaginative middle grade fantasy adventure combining the best of <i>Peter Pan</i>, Lemony Snicket, <i>Northern Lights </i>and<i> Alice in Wonderland.</i><br><br><b>''A magical adventure of friendship, bravery and derring-do in a richly imagined world.''</b><i>The Bookseller</i><br><br><b>''A fantastic frosty adventure.''</b><i>Sunda