What are snowblowers afraid of? To hurt the children, of course. In this audacious, offbeat and destabilizing album, Larry Tremblay imagines the encounter between an anxious snow plow and twelve reckless and curious kids who take a thousand and one risks in the hope of playing tricks on him. “Once – I still shudder when I think about it – they had made a strange igloo. They were all piled in there like a dozen eggs under a hen’s frozen bottom. I thought I was about to make an omelette. » In a poetic and tragic language that evokes the fable, the writer slips into the skin of the imposing yellow vehicle to attribute to it emotions, fears and nightmares which invite both projection and reflection. Anchored in the ghostly atmosphere of winter, Enzo’s versatile, contrasting and disturbing line contributes to the effect of strangeness to offer young readers their first thrills of horror. Sensitive souls refrain.
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