The shoemaker lives in a small cottage with his large family. Every day he toils away, making boots so his family can eat. The shoemaker’s sickly youngest son, Aron, often sits beside him. The doctor has warned the shoemaker that little Aron might not live long enough to see next summer.
The shoemaker longs to make more shoes to feed his family, but the cottage gets so dark, he must stop working before the sun goes down. One day the shoemaker and Aron spot something at the market—a beautiful oil lamp! Can the splendid lamp help the shoemaker—and save little Aron?
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Den fattiga skomakarfamiljen har det svårt under den långa vintern. Far sitter vid fönstret och tillverkar stövlar som ska säljas på marknaden. Bredvid honom sitter det yngsta barnet Arvid, som inte får gå ut eftersom han har en svår hosta.
I den stora familjen räcker pengarna knappt till mat, men fadern och pojken har en dröm: en starkt lysande lampa att hänga i taket. På marknaden köper de en så vacker lampa att den rika bonden i grannhuset vill köpa den av dem. Men skomakaren vill inte sälja lampan, eftersom den allt sjukare Arvid behöver ljuset för att orka till sommaren.
Efter den tunga vintern åker pojken och fadern ännu en gång iväg på en fisketur i solskenet.
About the author
Tuula Pere (b. 1958) is Ph.D. in Law and an author from Helsinki, Finland. Her doctoral dissertation published in 2015 examines the limits of the freedom of speech in the Finnish mass media amidst the social and cultural shift of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Before her doctoral research, Tuula Pere has had a career of over two decades as a lawyer and in various expert and executive positions in industry.
Since 2010, Tuula Pere has published over thirty children’s storybooks which have been translated into Swedish, English, Russian, Estonian, French, Italian and Spanish, for example. She has also published poetry and aphorisms for children and short stories for adults.
Tuula Pere is an avid music and sports enthusiast and a keen baker. She is married and a mother of three.
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