The Christmas Mystery (abridged edition 2002)

Jostein Gaarder (illus Sarah Gibb/ tr Elizabeth Rokkan)

A boy called Joachim acquires a strange old Advent calender - and uncovers from it the story of a girl called Elisabet, who disappeared from her home fifty years earlier. Elisabet has been taken back through time and right across Europe to Palestine, to see the Holy Family in Bethlehem. Two thousand yea...