Astrid Lindgren
Mio, My Son
Hardcover
(Viking Juvenile Nov. 23, 1956)
, First Edition edition
This story tells a kid named Busse out of a orphan asylum is excoriated in the family of nursing parents, who desires the warmth of family and biological father. One day, in a sudden, he is sent to a Remote World by a secret strength. Here, he sees his father who is the king of the country and calls him Mio, my Mio. This makes the boy feel true love. However, a horrible shadow slowly intrudes into his life. Because the opposite side of the Remote World is the Another World, where a violent knight named Karto with a iron hand and a stone heart lives, and turns kids into birds Mio shoulders the historical responsibility to set out with the hope of his father to fight against the evil.
- ISBN
- 0670477397 / 9780670477395
- Weight
- 6.4 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 6.2
in.