Description: Write "children," read "hope"! An ode to childhood from Kim Go-eun, an author of wonderfully wild imagination! It snowed and snowed and snowed some more. Two neighbors, too lazy to shovel, sneakily rolled a snowball out of the way—and it grew, and grew, until it became a Snow Planet. What can be done about a Snow Planet sweeping across the whole Earth? Children save humanity in its darkest hour! The day after a huge snowstorm, Mr. Kim from house No. 20 and Mr. Lee from house No. 21 on Narrow Lane get into an argument over who should clear the snow piled up in front of their homes. The argument drags on for a full hour and a half. Exhausted from the endless bickering and the endless shoveling, the two men each give the snow a little roll instead. A snowball the size of a fist quickly grows to the size of a person's head, then an elephant's head. Now what should they do with it? Mr. Lee gives it a sly nudge with his toe, and Mr. Kim gives it a gentle push with his knee. The two snowballs stick together and go rolling down the lane. Rumble... rumble... tumble... tumble.... The snowball rolls and rolls, grows and grows, until at last it becomes the "Snow Planet" threatening all of humanity. Scientists, clergy, and even the military step in to try to stop the Snow Planet as it sweeps across the Earth, but a solution seems far out of reach. People have no choice but to prepare to flee—into the sky, across the sea, underground—to escape the Snow Planet. That's when children, unwilling to be separated from their friends, begin gathering one by one at the playground. And there, they come up with a brilliant idea to get rid of the Snow Planet. How do the children plan to destroy the Snow Planet? Can children really save humanity from this crisis? Just as children believe, hope, and imagine! Snow Planet is a story author Kim Go-eun dreamed up while living in a town that saw an unusually heavy snowfall one particular year. It was a year when disputes between neighbors over clearing snow never seemed to end—common enough to make the news. Amid the endless snow and the endless selfishness of people, she found herself growing weary enough to think, "Is the world about to fall apart because of this?" Suddenly, a scene came to mind: a giant snowball rolling across the entire Earth. It seemed like all that endless snowfall, and all that endless selfishness, rolled together, could easily become a "Snow Planet." So who should be the hero to defeat the Snow Planet? Naturally and inevitably, children came to mind. Because there is no magic more powerful, no hope greater, than children's innocent belief, pure wishes, and thoughts that go beyond common sense. Snow Planet is a book that cheers children on, telling them that "acting on what you believe, hope, and imagine is what casts light into the world." It's also a book born from the wish that the good children within and around us never lose the power to believe, hope, imagine, and act, no matter how dark the circumstances may seem. Author Kim Go-eun, whose imagination so closely mirrors a child's own, dreams up the kind of ideas adults rarely manage—as naturally and effortlessly as breathing. In her first picture book, both written and illustrated by her, Should I Get Up or Not?, a child appears with wheels attached to their head, rolling around while standing on their hands. This happens because the child's head, unwilling to wake up, wakes up first and asks the reluctant body to "handle things on its own today, please." The book captures so perfectly a child's reluctance to get out of bed in the morning, and shows such delightfully childlike, whimsical imagination, that readers can't help but be amazed again and again. The author's boundless imagination is on full display once more in Snow Planet. It begins with the sheer premise itself: a fist-sized snowball growing into a planet-sized threat to humanity. The various antics of adults trying to cope with this crisis will have you laughing before you even think, "Wait, does this make any sense?" And after all that laughter, a knockout punch awaits: the children find some clever way to overcome the crisis themselves. Kim Go-eun still has plenty of untold stories tucked away in her drawer. We can't wait to see what shape her boundless imagination will take next.