The Christmas Mystery /
By Jostein Gaarder; Translated by Elizabeth Rokkan; Illustrated by Sarah Gibb.
- London : Dolphin Paperbacks, 2003.
- 160 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
A boy called Joachim acquires a strange old Advent calendar - and uncovers from it the story of a girl called Elisabet, who disappeared from her home 50 years earlier. Elisabet has been taken back through time and right across Europe to Palestine, to see the Holy Family in Bethlehem.