The frozen river cracks and groans

The frozen river cracks and groans like a giant's belly rumbles, like a thunder god who grumbles. Fee-fi-fo-fum! Now cracked open, sun shimmers, water ripples chunks of ice swirl past - crash! on the riverbank, water flows, eagles swoop, spring thaw has come! This is one of the eighteen quilt illustrations for the children's book by author Sheree Fitch, 'Sing in the Spring'.