"A tender story of courage, love, and life after death."

One of the best books I've ever read! I cry everytime I read it because it's so beautiful. It's a children's book but I'm sure anyone can read and enjoy it. Age, gender, culture doesn't matter, this is a truly universal story about everything that's important in our world.

To the winner of the EU Birthday / Bookiversary Sweepstake! Congratulations :)

Thanks for this book, it looks lovely! :)

I enjoyed reading this book to my daughter, and yes, it made me cry! :)

On its way to marsala. enjoy!

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Thank you Ossiefry for sending and victoriawagtail for registering this book. I am so very excited, I love Astrid Lindgren, I absolutely devoured her books as a child. But I don't think I've read this book before, so I can't wait to read it!

Wow, that was really amazing! I loved it!

On its way to Eponine38, hope you enjoy it!

Thank you so much, Marsala, for this book (and the other goodies!). Once I ensure that there are plenty of handkerchiefs/kleenex on hand, I'm going to read it (this weekend, hopefully):=)

Well, I guess the 3rd time's a charm! For some reason I couldn't get into this story the first couple times I tried, and I was feeling very badly about it because it came so highly recommended and marsala was so kind to send it "across the pond" to me.

I just finished reading it today, in one sitting, and - wow - what a wonderful story! [I did cry and cry...] I've no idea why it took me 3 tries, but am very glad I persisted :-) I think so often it depends on your mood, when you pick up a book, how much you'll like it.

This has all the elements: brotherly love, adventure, kindness, evil, betrayal, loyalty, altruism...

I already started looking for another copy to put in my permanent collection after this one moves on. [I was somewhat horrified to learn, during my search, that in some translations (American?) the narrator is named Scotty! What??]

Thank you marsala and all previous readers for sharing this, and I do apologize for keeping it so long.

Sent to the 2013 annual convention in Göteborg.

Someone at the Convention gave this book to my daughter Rowan. I don't know who! But thank you to that person and thank you to eponine38 for sending it to the Convention :-)