"Midwinter's Eve in the English countryside turns into a battle between the Dark and the Light. When I was a kid I wanted to leave the lights on after reading this."
"Time travel and Christmas seem to go well together. Not all about Christmas, but the Babingtons are temporarily saved by snowfall. I have loved this book ever since I first read it at school."
"Swedish classic about the Tomten who walks about in the winter night, taking care of the farm and reflecting on the great questions of life. Wonderful illustrations!"
"I always read this novella for New Year's eve, when I hear "the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.""
