The Snow Fox

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Age range 3 to 6

Left alone when his friends hibernate, Nico the fox makes a friend from snow and befriends a real snow fox in the process.

Nico is a little red fox that spends spring, summer and autumn with his three friends, Ava, Olive and Linus. When his woodland friends hibernate for the winter, Nico is left all alone in a snowy wonderland. He unsuccessfully searches for a friend to keep him company during the long winter. To pass time, Nico builds a fox from snow. Little does he know, he's about to become friends with a real snow fox. A story about cherishing old friends, perseverance, and making new friends.

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Shojaie's debut picture book gently extols the virtues of making different friends in different seasons of life. Publishers Weekly (U.S.)============The illustrations, rendered in soft, pale washes of tan, gray, green, and white, evoke an ethereal, indistinct woodland background, enhancing the still atmosphere of the spare text. ... A quiet tale of friendship with a delightful surprise twist. Kirkus Reviews (U.S.)

Author Bio

Rosemary Shojaie is an illustrator who is fascinated and inspired by chance meetings, memory, the passage of time, and the natural world. She especially loves the long, snowy winters of upstate New York, where she lives. She attended the University of Rochester and received her MA in Children's Book Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art, in England. This is her first picture book.