Description: This picture book captures the excited, fluttering feelings a little mole feels when it meets a friend for the very first time on a day of first snow. The author, who won many hearts with their debut picture book "The Mole's Worry," once again warmly portrays a day in the mole's life with a distinctively charming style and cozy color palette. In particular, the image of the mole refusing to board the bus without its friend, and taking off its own hat to keep a snowball from feeling cold, is filled with a purity and whiteness as innocent as the first snow itself. Though the story unfolds against a backdrop of a winter blanketed in soft snow, the little mole's world remains nothing but warm. This is a picture book that holds onto both that warmth and the excitement of a first snowy day. At the heart of this story is the mole's unwavering belief, from beginning to end, that the snowball is its friend. And that belief connects with children's imagination, which moves freely between reality and fantasy. The words of the bear and the fox—voices that sound just like adults in the real world—don't create disappointment, but instead highlight the mole's pure heart all the more, passing that feeling on to the reader. As you turn the pages one by one, you may find yourself, before you know it, having fallen completely into the mole's world.