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The Tomten

The Tomten

Astrid Lindgren; Illustrated by Harald Wiberg

Price: £9.99
Publication Date: 01 Aug 1992
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Format:hardbackExtent:32 pages
Size:210 x 270 mmISBN:9780863151538
Publisher:Floris BooksSubject:Picture Books
Illustrations:colour illustrationsAge Range:From 5 to 8 years
Edition:2nd edition

At night, when all is quiet around the farm -- that's when the Tomten wakes up. He is the one who looks after everything while the farmer and his family are sleeping.

Reviews

'It would be hard to find a nicer bedtime story. Beautifully painted, quiet moonlit scenes and poetic words tell of the Tomten, a small elf-like person who lives on a farm. It is a beautiful cosy tale of winter bedtimes, very comforting and definitely one of our favourites.'
-- Hilary Woolf with Isaac (age 4), Education Otherwise, October 2004

About the Author(s)

Astrid Lindgren is a famous Swedish writer of children's books, whose works renewed children's literature in Sweden and in Scandinavia. Lindgren's best-known characters are independent and unconventional, such as the untidy Pippi Longstocking, Karlsson, and Emil with his pranks. She wrote many books for children and received many awards for her work, including the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for Pippi Longstocking in 1973; the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1958; and the International Book Award from UNESCO in 1993.

Of Further Interest

Also available by Astrid Lindgren:
The Tomten and the Fox

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