After fighting the pangs of the scorching summer with perseverance and inventiveness in Heatwave Heroes, the gang of happy young wolves from an alley in the Plateau-Mont-Royal imagined by André Marois and his illustrator Cyril Doisneau is back in service for a new adventure, this time in the cold of winter. Their central character, the reckless and resourceful Étienne, was strongly encouraged by his mother (and the radio…) to go play outside and tries by all means to lure his three best friends into the snowy alley so that they come and have fun with him in the fort and the towers he erected in a short time, but with great effort. The call of the video game console and the heat of the home will prove a major obstacle in this perilous quest. All means will be good to bring them out of their torpor. André Marois is still on target with this short novel with “comic book” illustrations, which novice readers will enjoy being read by the (slightly) older ones, who in turn will perhaps recognize themselves in this almost seasonal plot. And adults are not left out thanks to references that only they can savor fully.
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