★ Rights sold: Germany, Italy, France, Russian, South Korea, Romania!
★ A stunning winter picture book that causes hearts and ice to melt.
★ Linde Faas paints with her unmistakable ethereal colours, redolent of the Northern Lights of where she lives in Norway, creating a heart-warming Christmas tale.

Christmas is almost here. All around town people are full of festive cheer, with light and warmth streaming through every window. Except for one house: the house where the li le girl lives. Her father is much too busy to decorate the house and to set up a Christmas tree.

As the girl wanders around town, a snow storm suddenly strikes. And then something big emerges in the middle of that wondrous white world: it’s an elk, who then takes the girl to the wintery woods. There, amidst all the tall trees, is a small fir tree, looking like a Christmas tree without decoration.

The girl suddenly has a great idea. Together with the elk they set off in search of the most beautiful treasures to be found in the woods with which to decorate the tree. More and more forest animals join in as they go along. Berries, twigs, fir cones, leaves, even icicles turn out to be the best imaginable Christmas decoration! All that’s missing now is her father....

LINDE FAAS
graduated with honours from the Sint Joost School of Art & Design in Breda. She works as a fi lm animator and as an artist, and internationally as an illustrator. She forms a steady team with writer Pieter Koolwijk and previously made her own picture books "Come with Me", "The Boy and the Whale", "Where Is Big Brother?". Linde lives in Norway and is inspired every day by the pristine nature of the north.