Review of “Great-grandad and the vanishing glacier” in Icelandic television program Kiljan, an important player in the so-called Christmas book flood – a popular tradition in which books are given as gifts on Christmas Eve. It’s reckoned that every Icelander receives at least one book for Christmas every year. Of the approximately thousand books published each year in Iceland fewer than 30 make it to the prestigious Kiljan review on national television and only a handful get this kind of critical appraisal …