Pina is a real-life Christmas present: Her birthday is on Christmas Eve. And this year she has invited her friends to a birthday party on the afternoon of 24th of December. But then the vicar decides to put on the Nativity play at the same time, and suddenly nothing is more appealing to Pina’s guests than playing a sheep. It’s no wonder, Pina thinks, that they’re all only thinking about the Nativity. With all the chocolate Father Christmases
and fairy lights, how are they supposed to get in the mood for cake and other birthday food? There’s only one thing for it: it will have to be summer – right now in the middle of winter...
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Ruth Löbner was born exactly three months after Christmas Eve in 1976. She studied general linguistics in Düsseldorf and married her professor, became the mother of two daughters and author of seven children’s books. She lives with her family in her grandparents’ old house. She likes eating snow, but she also likes tangerines ... and sometimes she wishes it were Christmas, right in the middle of August.
Katja Jäger was born in 1974 and grew up near Dresden. She has been drawing and painting since the very first time she was allowed to hold a crayon. She was given her first commissioned work by classmates aiming to improve their art marks. Since 2002 she has been working as a freelance illustrator. She draws, paints and snips for children’s books and gift books. She lives with her family near Remscheid.