A Nisse's Adventure in America: a children's adventure story

by John Martin Ramsay

Overview

Every Danish homestead has an elf, called a nisse. Nisse both protect their homestead when well fed but cause mischief when hungry. A special nisse is made as a Christmas present for a couple living in Kentucky. When Spiff is sent to Berea, Kentucky, he fills his pockets with all sorts of interesting, useful things. Then he gets into some mischief. When the family move to St. Louis, Missouri, Spiff visits the Arch and creates chaos when the lights go out, and...well, I won't spoil the ending! This adventure will be fun for adults to share with children--theirs or someone elses--or for children to read on their own!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781733029100
Publisher:	Shareinprint
Publication date:	06/07/2019
Series:	Stories Created for My Grandchildren
Edition description:	First of the Original Tale ed.
Pages:	36
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.09(d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

John Martin Ramsay graduated from Berea College with a B.S. degree in Vocational Agriculture and fourteen years later was awarded a Ph.D in Animal Breeding from Iowa State University. His experiences in life have been many and varied and he has written about many of them. He joined the faculty at Warren Wilson College at age 22, was appointed Director of the John C. Campbell Folk School at age 37, and was Director of Recreation Extension at Berea College for 21 years until retirement. He developed a Danish-American Exchange program, organized the Folk College Association of America, was selected as an Ageless and Remarkable St. Louisan, and is now a podcaster for Medici MediaSpace in St Louis. He says, "Life is a wonderful adventure!"

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Nisser in Denmark

A Nisse for America

Nissen gets a name

Spiff in Kentucky

Sealed in a box

Spiff moves to St. Louis

Christmas Advent, 1996

Spiff explores St. Louis

Spiff visits the Arch

A hungry nisse is bad luck

Spiff eats his first Big Mac

Christmas eve, 1996

Christmas day, 1996

Editorial Reviews

My grandniece, Rebekah, was living in Kazakhstan on her 12th birthday. Her father would be travelling and asked me, Great Uncle John, to write to her while he was gone. I created A Nisse's Adventure in America and sent it to her in chapters. It is a pretty good adventure story and mixes fantasy with reality.

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