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Who Will Make the Snow?
by Marjana and Taras Prokhasko
Age Range: 6-8
Who Will Make Snow? is an engaging chapter book by Ukrainian husband and wife team Taras Prokhasko (author) and Marjana Prokhasko (author and illustrator), translated by Boris Dralyuk and Jennifer Croft.
It is the first day of spring when twins Crawly and Purl are born to an already large mole family living in Beach Forest. Papa Mole is a journalist for the forest newspaper The Daily Mole while Mama Mole has a variety of talents from playing the double bass, studying several languages, growing orchids and jumping on a trampoline.
Seven delightfully chatty chapters relay the mole family’s antics as well as some lively discussions. From Papa Mole finding a strange egg to Purl learning to swim and saving a small mole in the river and Mute Marten selling his “exotic” African fruits, plenty is going on in Beach Forest.
Aside from the mole adventures, there is a much deeper, philosophical element running through the book. When one of the older siblings is ill it prompts Crawly to ask Mama Mole “What happens to moles when they die?” She replies that “heavenly moles make snow” – hence the title of the book – which leads the young moles to a broader understanding that death is something that happens all around them.
Marjana Prokhasko’s gorgeous illustrations have a child-like simplicity in a mixture of coloured pencil, gouache, and ink which provide an exquisite glimpse of mole life from – having a good time in the Under the Oak café; Mama Mole playing her double base; the mole offspring having a shower or Papa Mole at his typewriter.
Who Will Make The Snow? is a beautiful chapter book with witty text and vibrant artwork. It mixes the gentle humour of everyday life with the important question about life and death.