In this episode, Vinny cements his friendship with Monty – but in a painful way – and comes closer to realising what he is up against in Snowwhere. Just when things are looking hopeful Sal O’Pet intervenes.

Vinny is now firmly imprisoned in an ice world. He makes several encounters: with the Snowball, with Princess Bellaclava and with Monty, the Emperor Penguin. He also finds out the secret of survival in Snowwhere......

A guest reader delivers this episode, in which Sal O'Pet shows Vinny around and a few home truths are brought home. He begins explaining the origins of Snowwhere, but Vinny is getting more and more impatient to get out.

In this episode, Vinny is initially pleased when he is presented with his underground accommodation. He is not too happy, though, to find he has been shut in there with a very strange creature. Hear what happens in this instalment.

This week in the second instalment of Snowwhere read by author Heather Flood, you hear how Vinny is put through his first challenge, a downhill race against the Snowwhere chief, S.Lalom

This week you can hear the author of Snowwhere, Heather Flood, read how ordinary children on a school ski trip get out of their depth. Vinny and his friend Arthur, cut off from the rest on Alpine ski slopes, plot to get back to the hotel's table football game. But have they gone too high? Can they get down?…