Astrid the Unstoppable

By: Maria Parr, Guy Puzey - translator

Narrated by: Devon Sorvari

Pippi Longstocking meets Heidi meets Anne Shirley in this tale of an irrepressible girl in a mountain village who navigates unexpected changes with warmth and humor.

Speed and self-confidence, that’s Astrid’s motto. Nicknamed “the little thunderbolt,” she loves to spend her days racing down the hillside on her sled, singing loudly as she goes, and visiting Gunnvald, her grumpy, septuagenarian best friend and godfather, who makes hot chocolate from real chocolate bars. She just wishes there were other children to share her hair-raising adventures with. But Astrid’s world is about to be turned upside down by two startling arrivals to the village of Glimmerdal: first a new family, then a mysterious, towering woman who everyone seems to know but Astrid. It turns out that Gunnvald has been keeping a big secret from his goddaughter, one that will test their friendship to its limits. Astrid is not too happy about some of these upheavals in Glimmerdal - but, luckily, she has a plan to set things right.

©2009 Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo, original book published by Candlewick Press. (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. English-language translation © 2017 by Guy Puzey.

best book ever

it’s so good i mean come on who would not love this book 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆it’s sooo good and i love it 😍

😜love it!

This book is great. I read it for OBOB three years ago but now I am reading it lots

Awesome

I like this book because it’s so funny! I love the little goats! 🥰🐐 And I like the part with the sledding all the way to the warf

Enjoyable for the whole family!

Heart warming story with great characters and an engaging plot. Would highly recommend for a family book.

Astride the unstoppable 🎿

Astride is a great book 📚.
I love the part about the little hammer .🌈

I also love the part about Ola,Broider and Bragta.☃️❄️🌨🐯