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At Malmostrand life was so simple that rice pudding and eggs were luxuries. Until one day Nicolina and Guldklumpen lured a tomte into their goat house. And everyone knows that elf men are good luck.
First the children found a family of ducks. Before long they got some chickens and a goat, then a cow. No sooner had they bought the cow than the cow had a calf--and Malmostrand was a real farm!
There are people in the story one can know and like, and the colorful foreign setting is enriched by Mr. d'Aulaire's line drawings, which have the same gentle humor of the text.
Miss Burglon has written many short stories about Scandinavia, suggested by tales her parents and their friends told when she was a cbild. Recently, while preparing Children of the Soil, she visited her father's country, about Malmostrand, and returned to America in peasant costume, speaking only a few words of English. The experience gave her understanding of the difficulties her countrymen encounter as immigrants.
—from the dustjacket
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