Engaging...Azarian's finely detailed woodcut illustrations，hand-tinted with watercolors，capture the serene snow-covered landscape....In direct and compelling prose，Lunge-Larsen recounts how the two Birkebeiners most renowned for their skiing ability forge ahead.

It is the year 1206，and deep in the snow-covered mountains and valleys of Norway the fiercest warriors in the land struggle to ski a baby to safety...

This is a storv of the Birkebeiners and how they saved the infant Prince Hakon by skiing across the mountains in the dead of winter.It is an untold story of bravery and tenderness.