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Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Buttered Bread

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I first discovered the Snipp, Snapp, and Snurr books when I was a little girl back in the early '60s. Though they were written in the '30s, my six-year-old is as charmed by the three little Swedish boys and their adventures as I was many years ago. This particular story tells how the boys, hungry for a snack, are disappointed that there is no butter for their bread. Their mother sends them for a pail of fresh milk from a neighbor, intending to cream it to make butter. But the boys are disappointed again when Aunt Annie tells them her cow, Blossom, has not been giving any milk lately. Snipp, Snapp, and Snurr cannot coax even a few drops from the gentle cow. Her keeper, Uncle Freddy, tells them she is tired of eating dry hay and is longing for fresh, green grass, but a stretch of gray weather has kept the grass from growing. Undaunted, Snipp, Snapp, and Snurr look for a solution. By the time they are rewarded with slices of bread with homemade butter, the reader has learned how cows transform grass into milk and how people transform the milk into butter. I read this tale to my son's class recently and ended the reading by helping the children make butter by agitating whipping cream in a jar. As the yellow butter began to form, one little boy exclaimed, "It's magic!" Maj Lindman's story is magic, too.

This is the most fanciful of the Snipp, Snapp Snurr books (or Flicka, Ricka, Dicka) that I have seen. In this one, the three Swedish boys would like some butter for their bread. But there is none in the house.

The boys go on a quest for butter and discover what it takes to create butter. Butter is made from milk witch comes from a cow that eats green grass that needs the Sun to grow. In order to get their butter, they must appeal to the Sun so that it will shine and make the grass grow green and etc. etc.

Each pair of pages has the story on the left and a painted illustration by the author on the right. A fun and fanciful story that helps teach about how things depend on one another.

These books are absolutely wonderful. I remember reading them as a little girl, and now I am sharing them with my two little girls. The Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka books by the same author are also GREAT. Highly reccomended.

This is the most fanciful of the Snipp Snapp Snurr tales (or the Flicka Ricka and Dicka stories). Snipp, Snapp, and Snurr, the three Swedish boys, are hungry one day and ask their mother for some buttered bread. But there is no butter. The boy must have their bread plain.

In order for the boys to get butter, they will need milk. but the cow isn't giving any because the grass is brown because the sun has not been shining.

Snipp, Snapp, and Snurr appeal to the sun and tell it that it needs to shine and make the grass green. Their appeal is heard and eventually there is butter for their bread again.

Each pair of pages has story on the left and an illustration painted by the author on the right. A rather amusing and fun tale. Read all of the Snipp, Snapp and Snurr books.

I was shocked & amazed that I could find this old book, purchase it & have it delivered to my home in 2 days for less than $10. It was not available ANYWHERE ELSE! What service & what a deal. My class of 1st graders was pleased with the reading of this specific book which went hand-in-hand with our study & class project.

I bought this book to read to my childrens classrooms and it was a big hit.