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D'Aulaires' Book of Trolls

by Ingri d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire · 1972

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In their own unique style, the d'Aulaires have created a wonderful picture book including stories, anecdotes, and histories about those strange, long-ago inhabitanats of the wild Norwegian mountains —the trolls.

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