White Ravens’98/Japan/66580
Fujimaki, Kumiko (text)
Tsuchida, Yoshiharu (illus.)
Fushigina yukidaruma
(The wonderous snowman)
Tokyo: Kin no hoshisha, 1996. 92pp
(Shin tomodachi bunko; 9)
ISBN 4-323-02009-0
Father/Son - Longing - Help - Snowman
The father of seven-year old Fûta is missing in the mountains. Then one
day his mother falls sick from overwork. To get her some medicine, Fûta
goes into the village alone at night. Suddenly there is a snowman behind
him, a protector. His love for his parents, longing for his father, the childlike
fear of darkness and his encounter with the at first mysterious snowman
who becomes more and more like his father - all these realistic and
phantastic elements work together to form a sensitive story and a beginning
reader of literary quality. (7+)	

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