As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.
Hardcover
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 15, 1993)
When a gray-haired man's cleverness impresses a king, the king makes him treasurer of the kingdom, but the chief minister's jealousy of the newcomer threatens the situation. By the author of The Treasure.
The king and the queen and their growing entourage return each morning to a tenement street until the little boy they have come to visit is home to greet them.