Rafsa Stonestep (Book 3)

By Lena Frölander-Ulf

Friends Rafsa, Kotten and Ziczac are back in their home region. A marmot rebellion is finally underway. The battle will be between the marmots and the vipers: the vipers have turned the entire Stonefield into a snake pit and captured the female marmots and their young ones. Marmots from near and far have joined the final battle.

How can peaceful marmots win against venomous vipers? No one knows, but they still have to risk everything and give it a try. Rafsa will have to be very brave and become who she is meant to be.

In the final, exciting instalment of the adventurous Rafsa Trilogy, the marmots finally learn about their own stories and history, which the vipers have stolen from them. Without its stories a culture is defenceless. 

The Rafsa Trilogy – the Fight for the Stonefield about the rebellious, impulsive and brave marmot girl Rafsa and her two unruly companions is exciting and fun to read alone or to read aloud, with short chapters, illustrated in colour throughout. The adorable yet menacing illustrations are a trademark of Lena-Frölander-Ulf, known for her dark tones yet warm characters in artwork. 

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About the author

Lena Frölander-Ulf (b. 1976) is a Helsinki-based author and illustrator who writes in both Swedish and Finnish.Her works have been presented in multiple exhibitions in Finland and internationally.She has been nominated for numerous awards, including the prestigious Finlandia Junior award twice. Her book Me, Fidel and the Forest (2016) has been nominated for three different awards. Her celebrated first novel Nelson Tigerpaw (2019) was nominated for both the Finlandia Junior award in 2019, and the Runeberg Junior prize in 2020. The novel was awarded the Arvid Lydecken Prize in 2020.