I wrote this book for my son Stefano when he was eight.

I remember that it was not a great success, perhaps because the protagonist was crippling some words as he did a few years earlier or perhaps because, more simply than a book as a Christmas present, a child is happy up to a certain point.

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It is a short story for children.

The protagonists are Stea, a seven-year-old boy and the snowman his father built for him one winter morning, immediately called Gropan with a sort of acronym for GROssa PAlla di Neve.

But when the temperature rises and the puppet begins to melt ....

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