The Story of Snowflake and Inkdrop, written by Alessandro Gatti and Pierdomenico Baccalario, with clever illustrations by Simona Mulazzani, is a book that employs a few gimmicks in its illustration and layout which serve to tell the story of the calamitous meeting of the two title characters. Utilizing a layout that reads from both ends of the book toward the middle, we're given the perspectives of each character toward the event that is their meeting. As two characters that are contained within collections of similar objects, we see into the world through cut paper openings within many of the pages that look onto partial and indecipherable views. The translation from the Italian original story is slight and insignificant. The illustrations are highly evocative and magical, saving a rather bland book from being completely uninteresting. This book exhibits the difficulty of having inanimate objects as primary characters. Consequently, this book is only clever by half.