A rainy day proves the perfect day for a true flight of fancy. Gripping tightly the handle of his black umbrella, a young adventurer is swept up on an incredible ride of his own imagining: a daydream journey that follows from above the transformations of a woodland stream on its course to the far-off ocean. And where he goes, the reader goes.

Ida, Max, and Jack go to the creek one winter's day. They play on an ice floe then find themselves floating away-all the way to the polar ice, with just a box, a branch and some sandwiches. "You probably don't think it's true, and we didn't either, not even while it was happening..." They find an old hut, meet penguins, see extraordinary things, and, after testing their resources in this dramatic land of ice and snow, come home safe at the end of...