Timbuktu: A Ladybird Expert Book

<p><strong>"This is a bedtime story that small children will want to hear over and over again." &mdash;<em>The New Yorker</em></strong><br /><br />In this sequel to the classic <em>The Tomten</em>, the creator of Pippi Longstocking adapts a Swedish folk tale into a beloved children's story. When a hungry fox wanders into a farm late at night looking for food, the guard troll Tomten finds a way to keep the farm animals safe and feed the fox at the same time.<br /><br />"The illustrations have a luminous beauty. There's a kind, quiet calm here that warms the winter air." <strong><em>The New York Times</em></strong><br /><br />"Charming, hushed illustrations and quiet text together evoke the soft, snowy silence and winter beauty of a Swedish night. The troll Tomten mercifully saves the farm animals from the depredations of Reynard the fox, and manages to assuage the fox's hunger to boot!" &mdash;<strong><em>School Library Journal </em>(starred review)</strong></p>