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Maria Parr: Tonje Glimmerdal children’s novel
Tonje Glimmerdal / Tonje Glimmerdal
Published by Samlaget, 2009
Tonje Glimmerdal is the only child in Glimmer Dale, and the pluckiest nine–year-old the valley has seen since her now grown-up aunties raised havoc on their skis on the mountainside. Speed and self-confidence is Toni’s motto as she hurtles down the slopes on her skis or her sled. Toni’s best friend is called Gunnvald. He is a cranky old fiddler, over seventy years old. The two friends know each other in and out. Or do they? Because one day, while Gunnvald is at the hospital with a broken femur, a strange lady appears at the farm claiming to be Gunnvald’s daughter, and says she intends to sell the farm. Suddenly the world is not as Toni thought it was and she realizes that she has to act fast, in order to prevent the farm from being sold to that sleazy Hagen, and to get Heidi and Gunnvald back on speaking terms – although, Toni has a bone to pick with his old friend for having kept a whole daughter a secret. From 8 years and up.
“You only have to jump straight into it, just as Tonje Glimmerdal herself ski-jumps off a steep slope on the cover of Maria Parr’s book. This is a wonderful book!” From NRKP2 radio review. This children’s book offers laughter, drama, tears and music. The novel was awarded with the Brage-prize 2009 and the Critic's Prize 2009 for the best children and young adult's book.
Maria Parr’s début novel in 2005, Waffle Hearts (Vaffelhjarte) was a success. Maria Parr (b. 1981) is a student.
Translations: Waffle Hearts (Vaffelhjarte), 2005. Sold to Germany, Poland, Belgium, Sweden, France, Russia, Denmark.Tonje Glimmerdal, 2009. Sold to France, Germany, Belgium, Russia, Denmark, Sweden. |
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