Displaying 1 of 1 2008 Title: The summer book / Tove Jansson ; translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal ; introduction by Kathryn Davis. Author: Jansson, Tove. Call Number: FIC JANSSON T Publisher, Date: New York : New York Review Books, [2008] ©2008 Description: xii, 170 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Summary: "This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland."--Publisher's description. Series: New York Review Books classics New York Review Books classics. Subjects: Girls -- Fiction. Grandmothers -- Fiction. Grandparent and child -- Fiction. Summer -- Fiction. Islands -- Fiction. Finland -- Fiction. Sweden -- Fiction. Genre: Fiction. Other Author: Teal, Thomas, translator. Davis, Kathryn, Intr. Other Title: Sommarboken. English Notes: Translated from Swedish. Publisher and pagination vary (Pantheon Books, 1975, 166 pages). Contents: Introduction -- The morning swim -- Moonlight -- The magic forest -- The scolder -- Berenice -- The pasture -- Playing Venice -- Dead calm -- The cat -- The cave -- The road -- Midsummer -- The tent -- The neighbor -- The robe -- The enormous plastic sausage -- The crooks -- The visitor -- Of angleworms and others -- Sophia's storm -- Day of danger -- August. ISBN: 9781590172681 159017268X 9781439513071 1439513074 9780394492490 0394492498 Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Similar titles Where Is It? Large Cover Image Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
