Little Anna’s Christmas Gift

By Inger and Lasse Sandberg

Anna is a little girl who likes to do things by herself. She wants to build things and she wants to decide on things. She knows how to! Anna also has a good friend, the world’s tallest uncle. Tall Uncle is tall and thoughtful. Little Anna is small and very brave. Together they make a great team! When Little Anna wakes up on Christmas Eve, she finds a gift in her sock. When she opens the gift, the thing inside suddenly disappears. It looks to have been something soft and black. Where did it go and what could it have been? Tall Uncle helps Anna search for the missing thing, and at last she finds a small, soft and black kitten.

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About the author

Swedish cartoonist and illustrator Lasse Sandberg and teacher and author Inger Sandberg met in the 1950s and started their successful collaboration as a creative team and married couple. Outside the Nordics they are probably best known for their books about Little Anna and Little Ghost Laban. Together Inger and Lasse wrote and illustrated over 100 books and have been nominated and awarded several prestigious prizes, including the Astrid Lindgren prize and Elsa Beskow plaque.