The cold has seldom been more unbearable and spring never more lovely than here. Marit Törnqvist's masterful illustration of the story of the poor orphans and their struggle for survival with the farmer of Myra and the encounter with the red bird, who shows them the way to cherry blossoms and green meadows, and to a mother who cries, “Come, all my children”.Translator: Anna-Liese Kornitzky