Our .....Mirrhi's and mine......favourite small neighbour is having a birthday....he'll be 3. So I bought him this lovely simple picture book "The Tomten and the Fox" Here's a description of a tomten, if you've not heard of them.....
In Swedish tales a tomten belongs to the family of elves and other little “brownies” and is a good natured being who usually helps farm people . A friendly “tomte” meant a lot to the farmer and his family, he saw to it that the animals were well, he made sure the servants awakened in the early morning hours. These and many other good deeds and fortunes were the work of the “tomten and he was given a bowl of porridge every night”
In this story, when a very hungry fox wanders into the farm looking for his dinner, the Tomten finds a way to keep the farm animals safe and feed the fox at the same time.
So Parkes can play as he reads, I made a little felt fox......
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| Mr Fox has his eye on the hen house |
And here's the Tomten who watches over the farm animals .... he tells the fox 'no eating the chickens'
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and generously shares his bowl of porridge with the fox.
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Fox is about (5") long and stands about 9cm (3.5") high, and the Tomten is 13cm (5") tall, not counting his hat. Both the fox and Tomten's clothes are made from lovely, buttery soft wool felt.
They're all packed up in a cloth bag and we're ready for cake and fun later today. (No cake for Mirrhi, she'll just have fun running around and playing ball with Parkes!)
