I just cannot remember the name!

July 11, 2013 7:40 PM

Children's book, of a wintery sort (I've been trying to remember the title for six months). I read it in the last 15 years. It involved a bored princess and someone that came and shook everything up - perhaps pied piper-ish? It involved juggling I think and the character's name was really important - I remember it as something like 'Hode'.
posted by an opinicus to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

Haroun and the Sea of Stories?
posted by elmer benson at 8:07 PM on July 11, 2013

Response by poster: No, younger than that and entirely wintery I think. An illustrated book.
posted by an opinicus at 8:15 PM on July 11, 2013

The Veil of Snows by Mark Helprin? Illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg. I bought that one for a niece at Christmas one year because we don't see illustrated books like that much anymore.
posted by TimTypeZed at 8:19 PM on July 11, 2013

Best answer: Princess Rosa's Winter sounds like it fits the bill.
posted by dlugoczaj at 11:54 AM on July 16, 2013