2025 JIA Illustrator of the Year-Best Illustration in Editorial 2026 UK dPictus 100 Outstanding Picture Book 2026 Applied Art Awards-Illustration Award 2026 China Most Beautiful Book    A beautiful yet poignant story that explores the bond between humans and nature, and tender love that transcends mismatched time and inevitable separation.   A boy named Frozen Pear goes hunting in snow-covered mountains with his father and encounters a thousand-year-old spirit snow fawn, who only Frozen Pear can hear speak. As Frozen Pear saves the fawn from his father gunshot, enraged snow deer surround them, forcing his father to abandon hunting forever and punishing them with a blizzard. Longing for the snow fawn over the years, grown-up Frozen Pear becomes as a meteorologist living and working alone on the mountain top.    One day, a little girl who calls herself Snow knocks on Frozen Pear’s cabin door in heavy snow and he realizes she is the fawn from long ago. He finds out snow deer age extremely slowly in their original form, yet every time they turn human, they age rapidly. Bound to bring snow to every mountain, she can only visit him in winter but they still spend joyful nights eating hot pot, sledding and wandering through snow forests, falling deeply in love.   However, there is a bitter cost to Snow’s human form...   Size: approx. 14 × 20.3 cm