He and his friend waited patiently.
Night fell.
"Look, a shooting star!"
exclaimed Little Mole.
"Grandma says a shooting
star makes your wish come
true. I hope my wish comes
true."
You will want to have this book to share with your own children and your early years students when the first snow falls later this year. Hopefully, much later. Here's hoping we will be back to our new normal by then.
It is an enchanting and enduring tale of friendship. A lonely mole is on his wintry way home when he finds a small snowball and makes it his friend. Then he makes it bigger as the snowball listens to his tale of woe. No friends - how sad. When he decides to take it home with him, the mole is happy. The two wait patiently for a bus to take them there.
The first bus refuses to accept a snowball as a passenger. Little Mole's next idea - turn the snowball into a bear. Then, wait patiently again. Nope, still called a snowball. Can he come up with another idea? Well, yes. A longer wait ensues. Will third time be a charm?
You will have to find out for yourself.
Perfectly written and translated, this is a book that goes straight to our 'keepers' shelf. I know it will become a favorite, and deservedly so. Stunning illustrations done in colored pencil, pastel, pen and compiled digitally add a sense of poignancy at every turn, matching the beauty of the told story on every single page.
Bravo, Grandma!
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