num_pages: 32
description: No one knows when he came to the farm, no one has ever seen him, but everyone knows it is the troll Tomten who walks about the lonely old farmhouse on a winter's night, talking to all the animals and reminding them of the promise of Spring.Adapted by Astrid Lindgren from a poem by Viktor Rydberg
language: English
title: The Tomten
titlecomplete: The Tomten
genres: Holiday, Folklore, Childrens, Sweden, Picture Books, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Classics, Fiction, Christmas
ratings_count: 2438
places: Sweden
series: Tomten
awards: awardedAt: 28800000
name: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
publisher: The Putnam & Grosset Group