Elsa Beskow
Birth date: February 11, 1874
Died: June 30, 1953
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At Foyles' foreign language department the other day, I optimistically picked up two children's books in languages I don't know well, operating on the principle that, if I chose something I already knew by heart in another language, I'd be able to figure it out. It worked fine for Struwwelpeter in G...
This book shows how a little boy got his new suit back before ready-to-wear clothing. But making a new suit is not just about the steps of preparing and spinning the wool, it is also about the cooperative exchange of skills and labor that occurred in small communities. Pelle raises the lamb himself ...
I must start out the new year by reading a book from the 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up. This is from Sweden and has a copyright date of 1910.
Another book in the series that starts with Tant Grön, Tant Brun och Tant Gredelin. Tant Brun, the brown-clad maiden aunt, is going to have a birthday. The other aunts decide they'll make some clever improvements to her clothes, while Farbror Blå composes a little playlet in her honour and drills th...
This is a classic Swedish children's book in rhyming couplets with an unusual feature: the rhyming word in the second line of the couplet is (nearly) always omitted, so the child has to guess it himself. It's odd that it hasn't been done more often since then. Let me try and give you the effect in t...
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