★ Dai Yun, winner of the Feng Zikai Chinese Children's Picture Book Award (grand prize), joins Gui Tuzi, gold medalist of the CCBF Golden Pinwheel International Illustration Exhibition, to create this romantic winter fairy tale spanning three thousand years!
★ Where does snow really come from? In this book, the author offers a breathtakingly romantic answer! It turns out the snow is white ash scattered across the sky — the accidental blast of a failed experiment by the White Witch who lives in the heavens.
★ To make a single flower bloom, the White Witch locked herself in a dark room and frantically burned herself out for three thousand years. Only when she decided to give up, opened the window and let the sunlight in, did she discover the outside world had long been covered in blossoms! Through a gentle tale, it untangles the taut anxiety of modern life — a soothing remedy for readers young and old.
★ The interior pages use a stunning watercolor-and-acrylic vintage technique! With dazzling, fluid Chinese-style colors, Gui Tuzi paints the White Witch's mysterious dark chamber and the snow-filled sky to perfection. Every page is like a work of art — ideal for aesthetic education and collecting.

Why does it snow every winter? A White Witch, three thousand years of failed experiments, and one accidental explosion of white ash — a romantic winter fairy tale about letting go, painted like a work of art on every page.

A White Witch who lives in the heavens longs to conjure a garden. She experiments for three thousand years, yet her dream never comes true.
Shut away from sunlight with no fresh air, no warmth and no love — only endless expectation and one radical experiment after another — she naturally can never grow a beautiful flower.
Fortunately, the White Witch finally sees the light. She opens the window, lets the sunlight in and the air flow through, sweeping away the tension and anxiety, the pride and greed in her heart. Then the spring of her flowers arrives.
Full of childlike wonder and quiet philosophy, this picture book offers young readers a gentle awakening of thought. Its exquisite artwork brings children a sense of beauty and nurtures their aesthetic sensibility. If there is one message the author conveys, it is something close to "a willow shades you though you never planted it" and "beyond the dim willows and bright flowers, another village comes into view."
The devoted heart is lovely, but sometimes stepping back opens up a wider sky; lay down the tension and anxiety, open yourself, and you welcome far more possibilities.

Dai Yun
A renowned author of children's picture books. She earned her bachelor's degree from the School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University, and her master's degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her representative works include Strolling Chicken, The Rhino Horn of Sudan, and The Wutong Tree. Her work received the Excellence Award (text category) at the 2nd Hsin Yi Picture Book Award; ranked Top 5 in the National Library of China's 2018 "Little Golden Lion Cup" Original Picture Book Annual List; won the 2018 Bronze Sunflower Award for Original Picture Books ("Witty and Lively" prize); received the 4th and 5th Alice Picture Book Awards; ranked Top 3 and Top 6 in the 2019 Parents & Hongniba Children's Books list; was named one of Shenzhen Reading Month's "Top 10 Books of the Year 2019"; and won the 2019 Dapeng Nature Children's Book Award. She was also shortlisted for The Beijing News 2019 Annual Reading Recommendation and Publishing Business Weekly's "Annual Crown Book 2019." The Rhino Horn of Sudan won the grand prize of the 2021 Feng Zikai Chinese Children's Picture Book Award.

Gui Tuzi
A picture book illustrator whose real name is Liu Jing, and a member of the China Artists Association. She has collaborated with authors to create and publish picture books including The Snowman, Meeting a Sheep, Our Daughter Turned Four, and We Began Talking About Philosophy, The Blue Horse and the Goshawk, The Big Ship, and The Story of the Horse-Head Fiddle. Her honors include the 2014 "Crown Book of the Year," the 2015 China Beautiful Picture Book, and the 2018 Bing Xin Children's Book Award. She was selected for the 13th National Art Exhibition hosted by the China Artists Association, and won the gold award at the 2019 BIBF Ananas International Illustration Exhibition and the 2019 CCBF Golden Pinwheel International Illustration Exhibition. She also received the silver award at the 2019 Xiaoliangmao International Picture Book Competition, the silver award at the 7th National Illustration Biennale, the HILL Illustration 2019 award, was shortlisted for the WIA 2020 (World Illustration Awards), and won the gold prize at the 6th Alice Picture Book Award.