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This was a favourite bedtime read of my children when they were small. Despite having read this at least a hundred times, it is still a joy to look through. This is a beautiful adaptation from a poem by Swedish writer Viktor Ryberg. The story retains a poetic feel, the narration is soft and reassuri Leggi tutto

What a sweet story. I had listened to the audio of this when I would have rather had painted drawings of the farm house and the Tomten, who is a little gnome. A “Tomte” translates as “homestead man” who is a protector of the farm in which he lives. So this is a story about a winter gnome in Scandinav Leggi tutto

Ich habe die Hörbuchfassung gehört, in der nicht nur die Geschichte von dem Wichtel Tomte Tummetott erzählt wird, sondern auch winterliche Geschichten von den Kindern aus Bullerbü und Michel aus Lönneberga. Sehr schöne und sehr stimmungsvolle Geschichten. Ein Hörbuch, das man sich jedes Jahr wieder Leggi tutto

I love Astrid Lindgren and Kitty Crowther so much that I ended up buying this little picturebook in French and, painfully, translating it. It was only after reading about other work by Kitty that I found someone has already done it... Stupidity aside, this is such a lovely little story about a little Leggi tutto

In the quiet of a cold and snowy winter night, on a farm "deep in the middle of the woods," a tomten - tomtens (known as nisse in Norway and Denmark) are small, dwarf or gnome-like beings from Scandinavian mythology, said to guard and care for a farm and its inhabitants - makes his rounds, checking