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Over the years, a little sapling has grown into a big birch tree, standing right next to a family's house. It has a sturdy trunk and branches full of leaves.
For the birch, the year is full of changes: the warmth of summer; the wistful farewells of autumn; the chill of winter; and the miracle of growth in spring. The birch is often the center of life for the children playing in the yard, but sometimes the birch is left all alone.
In this book, each month depicts a vignette in the life of the birch and its surroundings. The tree and the family are in an ongoing, delicate interaction-from one day, one month, and one year, to another.
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Vid husväggen står en stor björk. En liten planta har under årens lopp vuxit till ett stadigt träd med täta grenar.
Björkens år är fyllt av förändringar: sommarvärme och vinterkyla, vårens underverk då trädet knoppas, och höstens vemodiga avsked. Emellanåt tycker björken sig vara medelpunkten både på gården och i barnens liv, men ibland känner den sig väldigt ensam.
Här finner vi en ögonblicksbild för varje månad ur björkens och gårdens liv. Trädet och människorna i dess närhet lever i ständig växelverkan sinsemellan- dag efter dag, månad efter månad och år efter år.
About the author
Tuula Pere (b. 1958) is Ph.D. in Law and an author from Helsinki, Finland. Her doctoral dissertation published in 2015 examines the limits of the freedom of speech in the Finnish mass media amidst the social and cultural shift of the 1960's and 1970's. Before her doctoral research, Tuula Pere has had a career of over two decades as a lawyer and in various expert and executive positions in industry.
Since 2010, Tuula Pere has published over thirty children's storybooks which have been translated into Swedish, English, Russian, Estonian, French, Italian and Spanish, for example. She has also published poetry and aphorisms for children and short stories for adults.
Tuula Pere is an avid music and sports enthusiast and a keen baker. She is married and a mother of three.
