A Calf for Christmas

Author(s): Astrid Lindgren & Marit Tornqvist (ill.)

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It's the last day of school before Christmas and snow is falling heavily. Johan heads to school on his sled, but he can't stop thinking about the terrible thing that happened yesterday - his family's only cow died, and they have no money to buy another. Rich farmer Peter Jonsson has come to town today for the Christmas market. He buys a calf then, after spending some time in the local inn, loses it on the sleigh ride home! When Johan heads out to clear snow, what does he find ...?
Maybe he'll have a happy Christmas after all.

A charming story by acclaimed author Astrid Lindgren, set in a traditional Swedish landscape.

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Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) was born on a homestead in Smaland, Sweden.
Her most famous book, Pippi Longstocking, was published in 1945 to great success. She is also well known for Carlsen on the Roof, her books about The Bullerby Children and The Tomten.
Her books are loved all over the world and have sold around 145 million copies.
She won many awards, 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.

Marit Tornqvist was born in 1964 in Uppsala, Sweden and divides her time between the Netherlands and Sweden. She studied illustration at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.

General Fields

  • : 9780863157851
  • : Floris Books
  • : Floris Books
  • : 0.36
  • : September 2010
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 36
  • : 839.7374
  • : English
  • : Hardback
  • : Astrid Lindgren & Marit Tornqvist (ill.)