Ake and His World

Ake and His World

Ake and His World is a children's fiction book by Swedish poet Bertil Malmberg, published in 1924, and was also the first book by Barbara Cooney, who was to later win the Caldecott Medal twice, for both Chanticleer and the Fox and Ox-Cart Man. It was adapted to film in 1984, starring Allan Edwall.


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