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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

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