Books by Rose Lagercrantz
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review 1: I read this book in both Swedish and English. I love this series, and so do the kids. I found some of the English translations to be clumpy, though it's probably not anything a non-Swedish speaker would notice. Swedish is just such a great language for children's literature and c...
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review 1: This book is soooo cute!Although "My Happy Life" is a chapter book, the chapters are short and packed full of illustrations. The story is written from the viewpoint of a little girl just starting kindergarten. She lives with her Dad (her mother has passed away) and she likes to ...
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review 1: There's something about the Scandinavian psyche that I must appreciate. From Elsa Beskow, to Astrid Lindgren, to Bodil Bredsdorff... All of these authors write material that I connect with, and that I think add to the body of really healthy and inspiring children's literature.Thi...
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review 1: This would make a great one-on-one read aloud or beginning chapter book for reading on one's own. There are only a few lines of text on most pages, complemented by lively black and white drawings that help to tell the story. It comes to us from Sweden, but has been translated i...
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review 1: My Heart is Laughing by Rose Lagercrantz is a lovely short chapter book about Dani whose best friend from school has moved away. Dani is trying to make new friends but seems to have gotten her signals crossed with a couple of girls in class. One thing leads to another until a ve...
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review 1: This book took me by surprise and I am still deciding how exactly should I start my review. If you have been following the blog for some time you probably have noticed that I love children's fiction. I truly believe that the simplest books are the hardest to write and if you can ...
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review 1: A heart-warming tale of a girl, Dani, determined to be happy - even though her best friend moved away and two classmates are mean to her when a boy they like decides to pay attention to Dani instead. Lots of pencil drawings make this accessible to readers just graduating from Ear...