There’s a chill settling in, twinkling lights are popping up around town and the smell of festive spices is in the air… It’s that time of year again – The Floris Books Christmas Gift Guide is here! If you need some gifting inspiration for the young people in your life, we’re here to help....
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Best friends Arne and Janna live on neighbouring farms and spend their days working and playing together. But everything changes when a splinter of magic mirror chills Arne’s heart and he falls under the spell of the powerful but icy Snow Queen, who whisks him away to her palace. The Snow Queen is a...
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Little snowflakes dance joyfully through the night sky, gently tumbling to the sleeping city below. As they swoop and swirl dizzily down into the warm glow of the streetlights, they discover a peaceful world of dark apartment buildings, empty parks and quiet streets with only the occasional lit window or late-night traveller to be...
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Bramble, the littlest rabbit, can’t wait for the snow to melt. When spring comes, she’ll be big enough to climb the tall tree with her brothers. But snow is all Bramble has ever known. Hopping from the rabbit family’s cosy burrow into the wintry forest where branches dip with the weight of heavy snow,...
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“Anna’s Saturdays are yellow. All day she is bathed in the colour of soft sunshine. Saturday feels as welcoming as a patch of warm sunlight to a kitten.” Anna experiences the world a little differently. Sounds make her mouth water; names and days have colours. She is a synaesthete. Mondays Are Apple Green is...
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What relevance do anthroposophy and the teachings of Rudolf Steiner have for the world today? Spiritual thinker Wolfgang Müller was initially sceptical that anthroposophy had any contemporary value. It wasn’t until many years after his first encounter with anthroposophy that a closer study of Steiner’s writings prompted him to make a radical reappraisal. In...
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In a series of lectures that he gave on the incarnation of Christ, Rudolf Steiner compared the period of Christ’s life between his baptism and crucifixion to that of prenatal human development. But what did he mean by this? And how can an understanding of human embryology help us to understand the incarnation of...
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Ben hates being the last to get picked up from kindergarten. Every single day. Then one pick-up time, Ben comes up with a terrifically tall tale about why his dad can’t collect him sooner: because he’s busy ruling over a huge kingdom, of course — full of treasure, snake-monsters, knights and robbers. Soon all...
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Deep in the forest sat a little witch’s house, but the old witch who’d lived there had gone for good. The little house felt empty and alone. As the seasons changed, grass grew tall around it and mushrooms began to sprout from its roof. The little house knew it must find a new witch...
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