“Papa, there’s a big cat lying on the grass!“ The little girl is very excited. It’s a beautiful day to go to the park to walk and play … but Papa seems more interested in his mobile phone than in big cats. Maresa isn’t discouraged, though: after all, adventures with a snow leopard are waiting for her … After her Luftschacht debut, ”Der verliebte Koch (The Cook in Love)“, Verena Hochleitner’s ”The Snow Leopard“ captivates readers with powerful strokes of brush and pen, enticing us to join her in a colourful world where digital and analogue realities merge. A snow leopard in Vienna’s Augarten park? But of course!