Fox and Hare were born in the spring, so they have never seen snow. Now the days are shortening, the forest smells different, and everyone says snow is coming. What is snow like? Each animal they ask gives a different answer: white like your fur, cold like the river, soft, sparkly, quiet. None of the answers are quite it, and all of them are.

Yuval Zommer paints the turning forest in big, textured spreads full of creatures to find, and the two friends' question gives the book its lovely engine: the reader knows what snow is and gets to watch two small animals meet it for the first time. When the flakes finally fall, the payoff feels earned.

A generous 12-inch hardcover picture book, 32 pages, from the illustrator of The Big Book of Beasts. A first-snow story for reading in November, and again the morning the world actually turns white.