Elsa Beskow

Brief rhymes and drawings of activities popular in the nineteenth century portray events that occur in each month of the year.

There is a little old woman in a little cottage. A little cat comes in the cottage and drinks her milk.

Four tiny elf children living in a Scandinavian forest have adventures throughout the year working and playing with the other inhabitants: fairies, a troll, birds, bats, 4 leggeds, and more. They wear hats of the red spotted amanita muscaria as a camoflage should they need to hide. So we rarely see them, but children, do you think they really exist?

A little fish named Flash who always escaped from his enemies as quick as a flash, is caught by a little boy fishing at a lake. Flash's aunt Flounder and uncle Bream use a magic spell to turn into land creatures in order to retrieve their captured nephew, Flash.

1 volume (unpaged) : 24 x 30 cm