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Five-year-old Polly finds a Christmas tree for her family after all the trees in their town have been sold.Tags
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Five year old Lotta boasts to her sister and brother she can do anything - and she's right! She can help an elderly neighbor with housework, she can rescue Teddy from the garbage truck, and she can even save Christmas. Absolutely adorable, and also real, not saccharine. Too long for story-time, but every word, every scene, is precious, so set aside some family time to share it with your children.
I love all the Lotta (aka Polly) books by Lindgren. I highly recommend them, especially if you have a child age 4-9. The only reason this one doesn't get 5 stars is because I have to reserve that rating for the one I'm about to review, [b:Lotta's Easter Surprise|468865|Lotta's Easter Surprise|Astrid show more Lindgren|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1312061341s/468865.jpg|457204]. show less
I love all the Lotta (aka Polly) books by Lindgren. I highly recommend them, especially if you have a child age 4-9. The only reason this one doesn't get 5 stars is because I have to reserve that rating for the one I'm about to review, [b:Lotta's Easter Surprise|468865|Lotta's Easter Surprise|Astrid show more Lindgren|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1312061341s/468865.jpg|457204]. show less
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Astrid Lindgren: November 7, 1907 - January 28, 2002 There are few children's authors more famous than Astrid Lindgren, creator of the feisty, legendary heroine, Pippi Longstocking. Lindgren was born on November 14, 1907, in Sweden. Her work has been acclaimed with many prestigious awards, among them the Hans Christian Andersen Medal (1958), the show more Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1978), and the International Book Award (1993). This truly internationally known author was the recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Medal and has been honored repeatedly in her native Sweden. There is a bronze statue of her in a Stockholm park. Her picture is on a postage stamp. The "World of Astrid Lindgren" is a theme park featuring the wholesome characters of her books. The annual children's literature award is known as the Astrid Lindgren Prize. The inspiration for this long and illustrious career, spanning five decades, is the author's own childhood. Her memories - of free and often wild play with her brothers and sister, of loving parents, of a close-knit farm community, of reading about heroines like Pollyanna and Anne of Green Gables - became the foundations of her books. Lindgren has said, "I write to amuse the child within me, and I can only hope that in this way other children as well can have a little fun." Lindgren amused her own children by telling them stories. Her daughter, Karin, named Pippi Longstocking, and the first written story was given to Karin as a birthday gift. The next year, 1945, Pippi Longstocking won a best children's book competition and Lindgren began writing the perennially child-pleasing stories that make up her enormous body of work, some of which are the series based on "Children of Noisy Village", the fable "The Tomten", the rambunctious "Karlson-On-the-Roof", the irrepressible"Lotta on Troublemaker Street" , the controversial "The Brothers Lionheart", and the unforgettable, wildly funny superheroine, Pippi, was featured in other books and became a star of stage, screen and television. Lindgren has been called the world's most read author of children's books. She is hailed as the third most translated children's book author after H.C. Andersen and the Grimm brothers. Her impact on the world of children's literature is immeasurable. Astrid Lindgren died in her sleep, in her home in Sweden on January 28, 2002 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Lotta's Christmas Surprise
- Alternate titles
- Of Course Polly Can Do Almost Everything
- People/Characters*
- Lotta på Bråkmakargatan
- First words*
- "Det är konstigt med mej", sa Lotta. "Jag kan så mycket!"
- Disambiguation notice
- originally published in Swedish as "Visst Kan Lotta Nästan Allting" (1977); translated to English as "Of Course Polly Can Do Almost Anything" (1977) and as "Lotta's Christmas Surprise" (1978).
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- Children's Books, Picture Books
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- 839.78 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Swedish literature Swedish miscellany
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- PZ7 .L6585 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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