Freya and the Snake

Fredrik Sonck & Jenny Lucander

“MURDERER!” I shout at dad.
He looks surprised. Then he says it was a shame to have to kill the snake.
“Then why did you?!” I say and run away.

Freya and her family are at their summer cottage. Under the patio, a viper lives. Little brother Hugo is only a year old and toddles around carelessly. What are they going to do? Dad tries to trap it in a bucket but fails, and finally kills it. Freya sees it and cannot forgive him.

A picture book about the first time a young child sees her dad do something wrong, how he shrinks in her eyes. About snakes and people, about different generation’s view on nature, and how hard it can be for parents to truly say sorry. This is the second book about Freya and her family.

 

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