Laban and Labolina Compare Things

By Inger and Lasse Sandberg

Is the biggest always the best? Learn about comparisons with Laban and Labolina!

Laban was Labolina’s older brother. He was both older and bigger than Labolina. Unfair! I don’t want to be the youngest and smallest! Labolina thought. Little Prince and Laban tried to comfort Labolina with an ice cream. What a small one! I want a bigger one! cried Labolina. But is the big always big and the small always small? What happens if you compare it to something else?

Learn with Laban are newly written and newly drawn stories based on Inger and Lasse Sandberg’s beloved characters. The books have an educational structure and help language development, all the while being fun to read together.

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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.