
Who needs words to tell a story? In Raymond Briggs's charmingtale, told with 175 softly hued, artfully composed frames, a littleboy makes friends with a snowman. He wakes up on a snowy day, tellshis mother he's going outside, then begins a flurry ofsnowman-building. That night, he can't sleep, so he opens the frontdoor and lo! the snowman has come to life. The amiable yet frostyfellow enjoys his ……
"[The pictures have] the hazy softness of air in snow. Alittle boy rushes out into the wintry day to build a snowman, whichcomes alive in hisdreams that night. The experience is one thatneither ……