A Best Friend for Christmas

Ylva Karlsson & Katarina Strömgård

Anyone with a bit of imagination knows that Christmas tree decorations are alive. Only when people are around do the little figures freeze and can no longer move.

Lena is the most beautiful Christmas angel you can imagine. The human giants she lives with like her best of all, she knows that, and her place on the Christmas tree has always been in the best spot.

When she is thrown away at Christmas just because her wing broke a little, she understands nothing. How can the people who loved her so much treat her like this?

Together with her new friends, the fairy lights, the Christmas goat and Almak, the toilet paper-ornament, she embarks on a long journey to find a place she once heard about – the land of Adventia. There, no ornament has to freeze as soon as a person approaches, and there are no Christmas tree lootings either.

A magical Christmas adventure in 24 chapters that are just the right length to read aloud together in December until Christmas.

Press voices

“Broken Christmas decorations on the run tells a story about friendship. (…) A completely different story, with bright illustrations and a educational approach to a story about friendship and what a family is.” Ida Norinder, Smålandsposten

“The themes are friendship, community, loneliness, gender, existential questions, to dare to follow one’s dreams and to not give up. Ylva Karlsson has written many children books, many in a nice cooperation with the illustrator Katarina Strömgård, whose mild pastel tones ads to a storylike shimmer over the pages. A best friend for Christmas is a well written and beautiful book for reading out loud, imagine like a Christmas calendar with a chapter each day until Christmas.” Jeanette Palm, BTJ