Runaway Pond by Bagram Ibatoulline, Nancy Price Graff
Published by Candlewick Press ISBN: 1536219983
Genres: Historical Fiction
Format: Picture Book Fiction
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This picture book tells the true story, albeit in a tall-tale sort of way, of a man who outran the charging torrent of an overflowing pond to save a woman who was working at a mill in the water’s path.

The pictures are lovely and capture the seasons of Vermont perfectly. The telling of the story is a little hard to reconcile with the actual event (there is a description of what really happened at the end of the book), but it will appeal to young fans of historical fiction, nonfiction, and American folk legends.

Reviewed by Sarah Maciejewski, Patten Free Library, Bath