The next of my childhood favorite books reimagined in my style is Raymond Briggs' "The Snowman". With Briggs' recent passing a few weeks ago, I was saddened because this book was probably the first book I remember as a kid before learning to read. It didn't have any text and was just pictures, I felt like I understood the story without knowing how to read. I also was a huge fan of the animated short as a kid. Thank goodness of PBS, which is the only channel that played it. It was such a fun story about a boy being friends with a Snowman. My favorite (probably everyone's) is the moment the Snowman uses his magic to fly with the kid. Even now both the book and the movie leaves me with that sense of sadness because we also feel like we too lost a friend.
I knew that I was going to do my cover version of this book eventually, but when Brigg's passed away I made this my priority to be next in my childhood book explorations. So here is my favorite moment in the book after the boy and Snowman take off and we see a view of his house as they fly further into the sky.
