Wow, I like this cover better than the one on my book The girl on the cover of my book looks affected and too much like Barbie. Sorry Barbie. Sorry thin, tall, blond girls everywhere with classically uniform facial features and non child bearing hips.
I needed something light for our camping trip and so my daughter loaned me this book from her collection. This was such a nice reprieve from the mission era research I've been doing. It's also been dawning on me lately that I'm increasingly fascinated with norse, nordic, scandinavian stuff.
This is kind of like celtic I guess. It seems to cross geographic boundaries. Last summer our kids attended a Norwegian themed vbs. It was so cool - no pun intended. I learned about the sami people of northern Scandinavia and this fired my imagination. Recently I watched the movie The Last King, which I dub "braveheart on skis." The film is in Norwegian but combines actors from different Scandinavian countries and Hungary I believe. I loved it!!!!! (see my profile for disclaimer about love and exclamation points.)
But I digress. Jessica Day George rocks. She has made this ancient fairy tale into an accessible read for people of all ages. It was a very entertaining flashlight in tent read for me. I love the word isbjorn. If you don't know what an isbjorn is, well, read the book!
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