The Snow merchant /
by Sam Gayton.
- London : Andersen Press, 2014.
- 265 p. : some ill ; 21 cm.
Lettie Peppercorn lives in a house on stilts near the wind-swept coast of Albion. Nothing incredible has ever happened to her, until one winter's night, when the night the Snow Merchant comes. He claims to be an alchemist - the greatest that ever lived - and in his suitcase, he carries his newest invention: snow.