Description

A clever and innovative bilingual English Japanese picture book about a Japanese girl and an American girl who prove you don t need to speak the same language to understand each other. When a young Japanese girl moves into her new house, she is happy to see a girl her age playing in the snow just outside her window. The only problem is the Japanese girl doesn t speak English and the American girl doesn t speak Japanese. How will these two girls have any fun at all? As it turns out, it s not that hard when both girls are looking for a friend! What starts with a simple hello and konnichiwa becomes a day filled with fun in the snow. Each girl s love of play, snow, and making a new friend transcends the need to speak the same language, and by using simple words in their own languages, along with a bit of charades, the girls find they have all they need to build a snow creature. An important book to show children that speaking the same language isn t a prerequisite to making a new friend.