The illustrator, Alois Carigiet, tucks simple black-white drawings of the forest world in the spaces around the passages. They contrast nicely to the full page colorful pictures of Ursli and Florina’s adventures. These illustrations filled me with nostalgia for my childhood winters of sledding.

The story, which is told in rhyming couplet, paints a vivid narrative and shows mountain top life in all its natural beauty and daily rhythm.

If you require children’s books with great pictures, unique artwork, and good poetry then track down this story and you will not regret it.