The story about Valle

Can Valle melt and why does he have half a carrot for a nose? In these tales about Valle, children get to find out everything about his exciting back-story and what adventures he has had.

Valle and the magical snow

One winter morning, long ago, the first snow began to fall. Big snowflakes drifted slowly down to the ground. The children rubbed the sleep from their eyes and cheered. They were going to build the biggest and finest snowman in the world.

Day by day, the snowman grew bigger and bigger, rounder and rounder. The children played around him all winter. They named him Valle, and knitted him a red scarf.

But then spring arrived. Valle began to melt!

The children hugged and hugged their beloved snowman. Their tears mixed with the melting snow. Winter was over…

That was when the miracle happened.

The children’s loving hugs created snow magic. Valle stroked his big hands over the children’s heads. The children looked straight into the snowman’s warm eyes.

He came to life.

Since that day, Valle can never melt. He is made from the children’s love, and from magical snow made for hugs.

Valle gets half a carrot for a nose

The children stared at their snowman. Valle could hardly stand still. His carrot nose bobbed up and down. Valle had come to life!

Now he wanted to discover the whole world all at once. If you have been standing still for a whole winter, that is perhaps not so strange…

It was spring, but snow still lay between the spruce trees. Valle showed the children that he wanted to dig in the snow.

“Do you want to dig snow caves?” asked the children.

Valle nodded and started running. The children ran after him. Valle began digging down between the trees. Suddenly, he disappeared head first. Only his feet were sticking up.

“Wait, Valle,” the children called. “The rabbits live there.”

And sure enough, Valle was soon down in the rabbits’ burrow. Curious as he was, he crawled further into the tunnels, but perhaps he should not have done that…

In the little rabbits’ nursery, the smallest baby rabbit woke up and saw a big orange carrot pointing towards it. The baby rabbit was very hungry and took a big bite.

When Valle came back up, only half the carrot was left. He touched his nose and looked at his new friends. Would they like him just as much with only a little piece of carrot for a nose?

The children hugged their snowman.

“Of course we will,” they said. “We love you just the way you are, silly Valle!”

Since that day, Valle has been the children’s best friend. He loves going on adventures with the children on the ski slopes.

So keep an eye out for a snowman with only half a carrot left. Then you know Valle is out and about. Always ready for fun and games…