Looking for a book that my sister remembers, hoping to find it for her and surprise her.
She remembers this:
1) Early in the book is an illustration of houses on stilts
2) There is porridge that has a single almond hidden in it and one lucky person will find it
3) There is a man with a broken tooth
4) I think she said it is a Christmas story
Thank you!!!
My first thought was one of Astrid Lindgren’s books, like “Pippi Longstocking” or “The Children of Noisy Village,” though I don’t specifically recall them having the details you cite. The almond in the porridge is apparently a Scandinavian tradition. A google search turned up “The Tomtes’ Christmas Porridge” by Sven Nordqvist, but I don’t know if the other plot points align.