{"product_id":"9781937541149","title":"Sound of Snow Falling","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA paint and paper documentary, observing great horned owls in their natural habitat.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e”Mesmerizing is the only word that works to describe Maggie Umber’s new graphic novel \u003ci\u003eSound of Snow Falling\u003c\/i\u003e . Well, “enchanting” works too. As in nature, the more you look, the more you see. A third viewing reveals story lines I’d missed in the first two. Umber’s minimalist paintings manage to convey, in three colors, the beauty, ferocity, devotion, and sheer heart of a pair of great horned owls bringing three chicks into the world. I’m taken by the economy of line and rightness of gesture in these deceptively simple paintings.\"— \u003cb\u003eJulie Zickefoose, author \u0026amp; illustrator of \u003ci\u003eBaby Birds: An Artist Looks Into the Nest\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eThe Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eLetters from Eden: A Year at Home, In the Woods\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e”Umber beautifully uses comic form to take the reader through intimate movements in nature\"— \u003cb\u003eAidan Koch, author of \u003ci\u003eAfter Nothing Comes\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Maggie Umber’s work is simultaneously a breathless, quiet stretch and an enormous, orchestral voice. I don’t know anyone else who can create such volume through silence.\"— \u003cb\u003eSarah Ferrick, author of \u003ci\u003eYours\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSound of Snow Falling is a graphic novel done in a poetic documentary mode. In this unique work, the reader becomes a voyeur of the natural world, following a great horned owl family through the dead of winter. Extensively researched and expressively painted, \u003ci\u003eSound of Snow Falling\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph of the comics form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e Maggie Umber \u003c\/b\u003e is a cartoonist and associate publisher at 2dcloud. \u003ci\u003eSound of Snow Falling\u003c\/i\u003e is her second graphic novella.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2dcloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054498169072,"sku":"9781937541149","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781937541149_p0.jpg?v=1763661887","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781937541149","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}