The Snow Theater
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- 8,99 €
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- 8,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
From Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winner Ryoji Arai comes a gorgeous picture book about a child learning to accept mistakes, while having a magical experience in the wild, beautiful snow.
After accidentally ripping the pages of his father’s favorite book, a pensive, heavy-hearted boy leaves his cozy, warm house to ski through the snow. There, in the quiet and the cold, he stumbles upon a small stage that’s all lit up—a tiny snow theater, with tiny snow people and tiny ballerinas—that soon transforms into a large snow theater, presided over by the majestic snow queen.
As the boy joins the chorus of snow children, the snow queen lifts up her arms and snow falls and falls and falls, until all the boy can see is white—a snowstorm! And it’s at that precise moment that the boy’s father, who let his son go off alone but never lost track of him, is there to take his hand as they return home together.
Originally published in Japan and written and illustrated by one of the country’s most important picture book makers, The Snow Theater is a quietly enchanting tale about the wild beauty of nature, the powers of the imagination, and the unconditional love of a parent for their child.
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With swirling colors woven through a snowy mountain setting, Arai (Almost Nothing, yet Everything) crafts a surreal tale of guilt and redemption. After his father's treasured butterfly book is torn during a quarrel with a friend, a rosy-cheeked boy portrayed with goldenrod skin escapes outdoors on skis. Thinking about the incident, he falls into a gap in the snow, and there finds a magical miniature theater where tiny snow people perform a circus-like spectacle. The performance, shown in radiant streaming hues, crescendoes with a dizzying song that seems to speak to themes of escape: "spin in circles, spinning high,/ spin your way into the sky." As snow flurries escalate, the child has a vision of his friend amid fluttering butterflies, and his father's hand appears, pulling him out of the snow. On the way home, Dad offers hot chocolate, and even suggests they lend the damaged book to his friend. The chilling, dreamlike narrative can be challenging to follow, but the striking imagery lyrically conveys how shame can be transcended by being open to forgiveness. Ages 5–8.
