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'A beautifully illustrated book with plenty of text. Peter and Lotta prepare for Christmas in Victorian Sweden in the days before Father Christmas, when the Christmas Goat brought gifts. It's full of adventures. A great Christmas read for 4-8 year olds.' -- Hilary Woolf with Isaac, age 4, Education Otherwise, December 2004 'Evidence from my family and its visitors confirms that Elsa Beskow's Peter and Lotta stories somehow capture the imagination. The illustrations in these lovely hardback editions have something of the charm that Carl Larson's watercolours have. For children I suspect these books have the old-fashioned feel and colour that a good Nordic "heimat" film does for me as an adult. Children love them.' -- Martyn Rawson, Steiner Education, March 2003
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Peter and Lotta go to live in the country with Aunt Green, Aunt Brown, Aunt Lavender and Uncle Blue. As Christmas approaches, they discover all kinds of new surprises, but best of all is finding where the presents come from. Is it from deep in the forest where the tallest fir trees grow?
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4.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A jolly Christmas book, Jan 17 2007
By MamaG - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Peter and Lottes Christmas (Hardcover)
Elsa Beskow's illustrations are beautiful and timeless, and she definitely deserves a more prominent place in children's literature. Peter and Lotta are so clearly childlike and lovely.This book shares some beautiful Swedish Christmas traditions of a bygone time -- when gifts were brought by the Christmas Goat.
My only misgivings with this book are that there is one part that may be a bit scary for a very young child -- Peter, Lotta, and Uncle Blue get lost in the forest -- and that near at the end, Uncle Blue chastises one of the aunts for encouraging the children to believe in fairy stories. We just "edit" that part out when we read it to our 4-year-old.
One other thing that might be useful to know if you are considering buying this book without having seen it first is that a large portion of the book takes place BETWEEN two Christmases. The book opens and closes with Christmastime, but the whole middle section is about the year between them.
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Beautiful Story for children, Jan 15 2011
By Whole Foods Mom - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Peter and Lottes Christmas (Hardcover)
This is a peaceful, beautiful, interesting story which my four-yearold daughter (almost 5) absolutely loves. She received it for Christmas and enjoys it several times a day. Beautiful illustrations, delightful children characters, just lovely.
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