The New York Times has included the Ukrainian book Who Will Make the Snow by Taras and Mariana Prokhasko in its list of the best children's literature

The book "Who Will Make the Snow?" by Ukrainian authors Taras and Mariana Prokhasko has been included in the list of 18 best children's books by the New York Times.

The full list is published on the New York Times website.

"Originally published in Ukraine, this sweet, strange, lightly philosophical book, illustrated with soft, scribbly drawings, features newborn twin moles who live in a whimsically imagined woodland community. The title comes from the moles’ belief that when they die, they will rise to the clouds and make the snow for those left behind," the New York Times noted.

The book by Taras and Mariana Prokhasko was included in the list in English, translated by Borys Draliuk and Jennifer Croft and published by Elsewhere Editions.

Taras Prokhasko is a contemporary Ukrainian writer and journalist. The writer won the Joseph Conrad Literary Prize, established by the Polish Institute in Kyiv in 2007, and the Shevchenko Prize in 2020.

Mariana Prokhasko is a Ukrainian writer and illustrator. "Who Will Make the Snow" is the first book she co-authored and illustrated.

Earlier, the book's authors told how they became the main prototypes of the characters in their book.

"Moles are our totem. Everything in the world is somehow very tightly connected. Perhaps the moles chose us as their spokespersons," Taras and Mariana Prokhasko said.

The book was published in 2013 by the Old Lion Publishing House. At that time, it won the BBC Book of the Year 2013 competition in the BBC Children's Book of the Year 2013 category.