Waffle Heart - Tonje Glimmerdal
Vaffelhjarte - Tonje Glimmerdal
Waffle Heart (Vaffelhjarte, 2005)
Trille knows one thing for sure: his great aunt makes the world’s best waffles. He is sure, too, that Knert-Mathilde is a wonderful place to live – and that his neighbour, Lena Lid, is his best friend. But he is anything but sure that he is her best friend.
In this book we follow the escapades of two inventive nine-year-olds through a whole tumultuous year.
A charming and humorous début work.
Nominated for the 2005 Brage Prize.
Tonje Glimmerdal (2012)
Tonje Glimmerdal is the only child in Glimmer Dale, and the pluckiest nine-year-old the valley has seen since her now grownup aunties raised havoc on their skis on the mountainside. Speed and self-confidence is Tonje’s motto as she hurtles down the slopes on her skis or her sled.
This children’s book is a masterpiece, reminiscent of both Heidi by Johanna Spyri, and Ronja the Robber’s Daughter by Astrid Lindgren. Here there is laughter, drama, tears and music, all in the same book.
