This would be a fun large lap-sized board book but works well in this smaller hardcover size. If you enjoy the Chirri & Chirra series, this is another you should investigate. Yet, this does not take away from the story in anyway. It has the feel of not being Western as original published in Korea in 2012. It is this soft feeling of magic and child imagination. A gentle, captivating middle-of-the-night-quiet book about a kid who wakes up in wonder, follows snowfall, and finds. The color is carefully placed and there to only enhance what is going on in the simple, limited text. The art is muted, but perfect for what is needed. That is the magic of the story by making it up to your interpretation. More likely, it is the children playing in the snow and imagination takes them elsewhere. After all, it is all possible that the children our little narrator finds are all in a real magical realm. SPOILER of course, the odds the child rolls a snowball far enough to find a magical world with other children is very small, therefore, most of this is the imagination, but that it is not necessarily off putting. that made me wonder if they are there or it is the child’s imagination (i.e.: did her puppy turned in the polar bear or there is a polar bear. I went back and look at the illustrations more closely as there are some hidden items/critters/etc. It has that realistic-magical element to it. First Snow invokes The Snowman’s “sneaking out” feeling and that nothing bad could happen. Bomi Park created a poetic story about the first snow fall and how magical it is to one child.
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