num_pages: 32
description: Illustrated in full color, this is a wordless story. The pictures have "the hazy softness of air in snow." A little boy rushes out into the wintry day to build a snowman, which comes alive in his dreams that night. The boy invites him home and in return is taken on a flight high above the countryside.
language: English
title: The Snowman
titlecomplete: The Snowman
genres: Graphic Novels, Childrens, Classics, Adventure, Christmas, Comics, Picture Books, Holiday, Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 18537
awards: awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Zilveren Griffel, awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
category: Picture Book
publisher: Random House