Making a Friend

MAKING A FRIEND
By Alison McGhee.

Illustrated by Marc Rosenthal.

With the sparest text and softest watercolors, McGhee and Rosenthal lovingly evoke the pleasures of the season’s first snow. A red-capped boy makes a snowman, giving him pebble eyes, a carrot nose and, finally, his own red hat to wear. When the snow melts, the snowman doesn’t really disappear: he is in the falling water, the rain on the ocean and the fog. He is always with the boy and will always come back in this tender paean to cold weather and enduring friendship.

A simple story - Boys builds snowman - Snowman melts - The first snow - Boys builds snowman again. McGhee blends in the phrase, "What you love will always be with you", to give the story new meaning.