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100 1 _aSalo, Aino,
_d1897-1992
245 1 0 _aKarrin lapset
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-31
508 _aTuula Temonen
520 _a"Karrin lapset" by Aino Salo is a children's novel written in the early 20th century. It follows siblings Kaisa, Paavo, Pirkko, and Saara growing up on the rural homestead Karri, portraying everyday chores, small adventures, and tender moral lessons in a close-knit Finnish family. Themes of kindness, responsibility, faith, and community shape their episodic year at home, school, and holidays. The opening of the story introduces the four children, their parents, maid Leena, and pets at Karri, then lingers on a cozy portrait of the homestead. A secret plan for their mother’s birthday leads to late-night baking, a spilled water fiasco, and a gentle intervention by Father before a morning serenade and gift-giving. A berry-picking trip with friend Ville brings swimming at a forest lake, the boys peeking into a hawk’s nest, a comical struggle to light a fire without matches, and—after a quarrel—Pirkko’s frightening but brief disappearance and safe return. Kaisa discovers the poor Suuntala croft, and next day the girls bring food, clean the cottage, and comfort Iita and her ailing daughter Hanna; soon after, Iita brings news of Hanna’s peaceful death and her parting gift, a small paper basket. The section closes with Mother beginning a “true” fairy tale about house gnomes and two girls who exchange letters with them. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava, 1923
653 _aFinnish fiction -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77589
999 _c118309
_d118309