Winter Stories by Astrid Lindgren (and one spare spring story) Set of 4 books

The best winter stories Astrid Lindgren. Four special books are three Christmas for creating a festive mood and one Easter in reserve until spring.
"Calf for Christmas"
On the eve of Christmas, a disaster comes to the Johan family: their only cow dies, and mom and dad do not have money to buy a new one. But it turns out that in the most difficult life situations, circumstances often develop in such an amazing way that what is happening seems to be a real miracle - as if the highest forces weave the fabric of our life in such a way as to protect us, and all the evil in the world balances with good. This wonderful Christmas story Astrid Lindgren, who has become a classic of children"s literature, first published in Russian.
"Tomten" and "Tomten and Fox"
In 1960, the Swedish publishing house Raben & Sjogren published a separate publication with a poem by the Swedish writer and poet Viktor Rüdberg "Tomten with illustrations of Harald Vieberg. Astrid Lindgren, based on the poem, wrote a short story of the same name, doing this specifically for foreign publishers who wanted to publish this book with a free prose translation of the Ryudberg poem. Five years later, Astrid Lindgren, wrote another short story about the same character, this time based on the poems of Karl-Eric Fortrand Tomten and Fox, which was also published with a separate publication with Vyberg"s illustrations. Both books became classics of children"s literature and first published in Russian in the publishing house "Good Book".
Who is Tomten?
Tomten, Tomte or Tomtenissa (from the Swedish TOMT - land plot, placed the earth) is a fairy -tale character of the Scandinavian folklore that protects a certain land plot (farm, farm, manor, garden or garden) and all who lives or work on it . Thus differs from this from the Slavic brownie (guardian of the house), although otherwise these fairy -tale creatures are very similar. Unlike gnomes, which, as a rule, live underground (the word "dwarf" comes from the Latin Genomos - “underground resident ") and beg with greedy, selfish and even insidious creatures, Tomten - flexible and unpretentious creatures, caring and hardworking assistants, Good guardians of the earth and all who live on it.
"How Adam Engelbrekt raged"
This story happened in Sweden a long time ago, on one Easter Sunday, when a huge bull named Adam Engelbrekt suddenly furious and escaped from the barn, striving to put horns into everyone who was on his way. He probably would have been walking at large to this day, if only ...
About what happened next, you will learn from this little -known story Astrid Lindgren, who first comes out in Russian with a separate publication with remarkable illustrations of the Dutch artist Marit Torkvist in the new translation of the Publishing House "Good Book"