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head to foot, with round, pudgy hands and feet like the paws of a teddy bear." When it shook itself "bits of ice flew in all directions" (p. 27). The story of raising the "snow baby" secretly (p. 31 ff.), how he learns to talk, how "touchy" he becomes, and how he outgrows the refrigerator is amusingly told in plain
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The following day, the children are puzzled to find a large, smooth snowball between the snowman and snow-woman. They decide to store it in the fridge to show to their mother when she returns. But it is "no ordinary snowball", and three days later, it hatches into "a tiny little person, white from
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