This book has been reissued after 60 plus years and the story is dated.  I fondly remember these Swedish triplet girls and how well they played together.  In this story, it is Christmas time and the girls all get ice skates.  After Christmas they go to visit their aunt and uncle and he takes them to a frozen pond to go skating, with a warning as to not go near the thin ice.  Then he leaves.  A little boy joins them and chases their dog and soon afterwards they both fall through the ice.  The little girls help to pull the boy out and take him home.  His appreciative mother sends the little triplets identical girl dolls and they all have a tea party.  The colors and illustrations are clean and fresh and simple.  It makes me nostalgic to think of how simple life was back when this was first written.  Nowadays I couldn’t imagine this actually happening, as I am sure it did back then.  Oh, for the good old days!  Although children will enjoy the simple story and pictures, I would hate for them to think it was okay to go out on a frozen pond and skate all by themselves, especially knowing that not all of the water was frozen.  Life isn’t the same anymore.  I wished the story itself had been updated to current conditions and behavior.