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Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and the Strawberries
by
Maj Lindman
Flicka, Ricka and Dicka are going wild-strawberry picking, and Mother has promised to pay for every basket they gather. When they stop at a cottage to ask for directions, the girls meet Mary, her baby brother, and their mother. They are very kind, but have patches on their clothes and no milk to drink. After the girls help Mother make strawberry jam, they think of a specia...more
Paperback, 32 pages
Published
September 1st 1996
by Albert Whitman & Company
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Oh, gosh! I LOVED Flicka, Ricka and Dicka when I was little!!! Their names were so much fun, they had cute dresses, lived in a pretty countryside, got to wander around on their own and have little adventures... I am not sure if these are just now coming back into print or what but I discovered a few copies at a wonderful independent bookstore and couldn't help but snap this one up. Now, I don't think the storytelling part of the book is its strong point--nothing too original in the wording (t...more
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As a child, I was fascinated by the Swedish girls Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka, as well as their male counterparts, Snipp, Snapp and Snurr. Everything they represented was alien to me-- the blonde hair, the equanimaty they shared, their innocuous adventures followed up by easy solutions, but most fascinating of all, their unofficial status as triplets. Perhaps young readers today won't be as impressed as I was. We live in an age where octuplets are greeted with outrage rather than wonder--unlike mic...more
Love, love, love this book. We have to read more of these! My kids laughed at the girls' names, but I had to tell them that they were Swedish names. A great story about helping others. Charming.
I really enjoyed reading this book. I think that this book will help to teach children that no matter how young they are they can still help others that are less fortunate than themselves.
This is my favorite from the series. Mostly because Dad made an error in reading it, which had to be repeated every time. One was always crying and I wanted to smack her.
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