When he runs off to the market instead of sticking around for a reading
lesson, he encounters a much-admired older boy secretly reading at a
book stall, and then Amadi becomes intrigued by a storybook with
pictures of a strange white creature that has a carrot for a nose.
Unable to shake his questions about the snowman, Amadi discovers the
vast world reading can open up--especially for an Igbo boy of Nigeria.