When you run through the snow, you compete not against other skiers but against the elements that are so much greater than you, and that is very exciting. I’ve been a skier all though my childhood, both cross-country and downhill. I grew up in Russia, skiing is what you do in winter, and the winter is nine months out of the year. Does skiing have a special significance to you? In the story the theme of skiing is very prominent. I hope that as it stands now, Print In The Snow has something for both young and grown-up readers, just like The Hobbit had for me as a kid and still has today.
As I grew, the story grew as well, and more serious elements emerged. When I started writing Print In The Snow, it was a humorous, light-hearted, almost parody-like story drawing on many of my childhood interests. What grew out of the fairy tale was The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, and it’s definitely more than a bedtime story for little kids. The Hobbit was intended as a children’s story, but the world and the characters developed and took on a life of their own. Tolkien fan, I instinctively look to his books for inspiration and guidance. What is its intended audience in your own mind?īeing a devoted J.R.R.
Print In The Snow is a fairytale that enchants children and adults alike. Before she discovers the truth about love, she has to learn the value of loss, only then can she find the way home. She has to unlock secret doors, make new friends, negotiate glaciers and battle tunnel-dwelling beasts, all the while trying to win the affection of the oblivious boy she likes and fend off the advances of a mysterious sorcerer she hatesĪs Anna struggles against the monstrous world, she fights the inner monsters as well. Run by elves-and not the Keebler kind-it's a confusing and dangerous place. Mistaken for a boy, Anna is accepted by the peculiar Skiers as one of their own, and becomes trapped in the Wyssun' World. Much to her surprise she meets another cross-country skier, a boy about her own age, and follows him into a snow-covered magical Otherworld inhabited by the monstrous Wyssun and the Skiers who hunt them. After another argument with her mother, she defiantly sneaks out to ski in Riverside Park. Join the unlikely heroine on an adventure of a lifetime! Lush watercolor illustrations of cool characters, weird monsters, and spooky villains.įourteen-year-old Anna has just moved to New York with her mother and stepfather, and she hates everything about her new life. For the fans of Neil Gaiman and Roald Dahl's storytelling: a down-to-earth teen girl must get back home from the Otherworld before the fairytale dream turns into a nightmare.
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