A warm snow theater unfolds before the eyes of a boy who has fallen down in frustration.

In winter, when all life lies quietly asleep, what emotions do you feel when you see a blanket of snow? Some experience a beauty that touches them without resistance. Others experience a celebratory joy, recalling memories cherished deep within their hearts. Still others find solace in the sight of snow perched on tree branches, a soothing comfort to their turbulent hearts.
Just as we cautiously step forward with white feet, the pure white snow touches our emotions, which shine with various colors.

A small town where snow falls gently.
The boy is reading a book in a warm room with his friend.
The book is the boy's father's most treasured butterfly guide in the world.
As the cold and bitter winter melts away, beautiful butterflies of yellow, red, light blue, white, orange, green… awaken, heralding the arrival of spring.
The butterfly encyclopedia symbolizes the father's wish for spring and the children's dreams.
However, the boy breaks his father's butterfly encyclopedia, which he had collected one by one, waiting for spring, while passing it to his friend.
Even if you try to put it back together, it won't connect like a heart that's been torn to shreds.
The boy, anxious that his father might get angry, leaves the house.
Everything outside the house was frozen in white.
The boy, filled with frustration and anxiety, falls into a hole.
And before the eyes of the fallen boy, a small theater with lights on appears.
What could be there?

A stage of soft snowmen that comforts the sorrow and broken hearts

The little snowmen who live in the snow theater invite the boy to today's stage.
The Snow Theater features a variety of actors who will stimulate children's curiosity.
Ballerinas dancing silently and spinning, actors rolling transparent ice balls, actors on sleds pulled by ice deer, musicians wearing horn-shaped hats, etc… … .
The snowmen all dance together and sing the top song.
Their movements grow like a top, accompanied by the slowly spreading sound of the song.
The boy falls under the spell of eyes filled with love, warmth and romance.
Under the warm light, the complicated feelings from a petty argument with a friend, the guilt of destroying Dad's most precious butterfly encyclopedia, the anxiety of being scolded, and the distant sadness all disappear.

Sometimes we get stuck in the past and feel anxious about the future that has not yet arrived.
The boy is so overcome with the thought that he has done something wrong that his heart turns white.
Anxiety and impatience filled my heart, and I almost lost my color and collapsed in the pitch-black darkness, but seeing the stage of the Snow Theater lifted my broken heart back up.
The greatest force that keeps children alive is imagination.

The light of emotions sparkling in various colors in the pure white snow

《Snow Theater》 expresses the heart of a child waiting for a beautiful world by putting together a composition that crosses the boundaries between reality, imagination, and reality.
And it deeply unravels the sorrow and pain of reality as much as the power of imagination.
Arai Ryoji, beloved by a wide range of readers from children to adults for his warm and witty story and his fantastic painting style that freely and danceably expresses the world of children, impressively expresses the characters' emotions and situations with his signature instinctive and textured brushstrokes, dense coloring, and bold composition of the surfaces in this work as well.
Feel the mystical light of emotions, the midwinter scenery, and the various colors sparkling in the pure white snow.

Repetition of onomatopoeia and mimetic words that stimulate the depth of the story and the reader's imagination

In 《Snow Theater》, various onomatopoeia and mimetic words appear repeatedly.
By expressing the shapes and sounds of eyes in a variety of ways and directly, readers can freely use their imagination.
As you turn the pages, you can feel the sound and texture of falling snow, beautifully enjoying the snowy landscape of midwinter.
Onomatopoeia such as 'ssokdak sokdak' and 'deungsildeungsil' visually represent the actions and states of the snowmen and convey the emotions on stage in the snow theater.
The repetition of onomatopoeia and mimetic words that provide rhythm between sentences goes beyond simply adding to the enjoyment of reading a book; it symbolically expresses specific images and emotions, thereby adding depth to the text and stimulating the reader's imagination.