Title: Hugo och Josefin
First published: 1969
Description: Hugo and Josephine are two very real children. Josephine (who gave herself this name in preference of her dreary real name, Anna Gra) is the mischievous, wispy-haired daughter of a minister in a small Swedish town.  At school, she is often teased and at home in the big, old parsonage, she is sometimes lonely.  But when Hugo, a wild, happy vagabond comes into her life, everything changes.  Hugo, who attends school only if he is not too busy carving trolls or tending his spider collection, is more than a match for the school bullies, let alone the teacher.  Their friendship from the opening of school through the Swedish winter darkness, up to a momentous Christmas celebration is a sometimes hilarious but always a touching story. 

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Subjects: Friendship, Juvenile, Sweden, Fiction, Friendship, fiction, Sweden, fiction, Children's fiction
Places: Sweden
LC classification: PZ7.G8875 Hu