Snegurochka

Fun fact for anyone who might actually care about my book: The Snow Maiden is a real book!  Out of pure curiosity, I decided to google the title of the story that Mabel reads in The Snow Child and, to my delight, I discovered that the Russian story was not made up.  A Soviet poet named Alexander Afanasyev was the first to write the folktale down, turning it into Russian literature.  He named the story Snegurochka and published it in 1869.  As far as I can tell, this is the only original illustration floating around on the internet from the book but it does an excelent job, in my opinion, of capturing the wintery, magical essence of the snow maiden in the forest.  The painting was done by Viktor Vasnetsov.

Works Cited: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snegurochka

And yes, Mrs. LaClair, I did just cite Wikipedia but I hope you'll let this one fly!