The Snowball (children's novel)

The Snowball (first published 1969) is a domestic fantasy novel for children by the English writer Barbara Sleigh (1906–1982),[1] who is best known for her Carbonel series.

The children are on a loose rein, as their mother is soon called away to nurse some relations of theirs through a bout of measles, leaving them with their preoccupied father, a schoolmaster who is busy writing a book (p.

The following day, the children are puzzled to find a large, smooth snowball between the snowman and snow-woman.

But it is "no ordinary snowball", and three days later, it hatches into "a tiny little person, white from head to foot, with round, pudgy hands and feet like the paws of a teddy bear."

), how he learns to talk, how "touchy" he becomes, and how he outgrows the refrigerator is amusingly told in plain English, which makes the story suitable for children as young as eight.