In this charming winter tale, an Israeli girl dreams of seeing snow and her father works to make her dream reality. Pnina lives in the city of Beit Shemesh, Israel. Her father grew up in Canada, and Pnina wishes she could build a snowman like he did in his youth. When she asks why it doesn't snow in Israel, he tells her that it does, but only in Jerusalem. It's only about a half-hour drive from Pnina's house to her grandparents' Jerusalem home, so Pnina wonders why it doesn't snow in both places. But she trusts her Abba to tell her the truth, even if her best friend, Chana Leah, is skeptical about the idea. Eventually, her father wakes her up in the middle of the night and piles the whole family into their van. When they arrive in Jerusalem, the sky is full of snowflakes. Pnina waxes poetic about the snow's appearance: "You won't believe that it fell like stardust, sparkled and fell in impossibly big flakes that night against my face. You will have to see it with your own eyes." And if there isn't enough for a snowman, she doesn't have to tell Chana Leah that! Zevy's story offers a sweet slice-of-life story. The vocabulary makes it best geared toward independent readers at the chapter-book level, and Pnina's voice may feel familiar to readers of kid-lit heroes such as Barbara Park's Junie B. Jones or Debbi Michiko Florence's Jasmine Toguchi. Zevy introduces Hebrew and Yiddish words into the text without explanation, though a few are included in the end glossary with definitions that make no distinction between the languages. (Pnina, when explaining meshugahin the text, just says it's "Jewish for crazy.") Some jokes may sail over the head of some youngsters, such as a reference to Pat Sajak and Wheel ofFortune. Tan's textured, full-color cartoon illustrations have an almost cut-paper feel, especially when featuring snowflakes. A fun winter story that celebrates the novelty of snow.