The Wonderful Adventures of Nils: A Classic Swedish Children's Tale

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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils: A Classic Swedish Children's Tale - Hardcover

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils: A Classic Swedish Children's Tale - Hardcover

by Selma Lagerlof
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by Selma Lagerlof (Author), Lars Klinting (Illustrator), Joan Tate (Translator)

Adventure through Sweden in this beautifully illustrated and sensitively abridged edition of Selma Lagerlöf's classic Swedish tale.

When schoolboy Nils is magically shrunk to a tiny size, he begins a perilous journey traveling the length of Sweden. Soaring through the sky on the back of a goose, Nils discovers the wild and the wondrous: from frozen lakes and snow-topped mountains to lost cities, new friends and dangerous foes.

Will he ever be able to return to his former life and his former size?

Author Biography

Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Lars Klinting (1948-2006) was a much-loved Swedish author and illustrator. Lars created numerous children's books including the Handy Harvey series, which became popular all over the world and illustrated books by Astrid Lindgren and Selma Lagerlöf. He won the Elsa Beskow Plaque in 1987.

Joan Tate (1922-2000) was an acclaimed and prolific literary translator who worked on more than 200 books from the Scandinavian languages.

Number of Pages: 108
Dimensions: 0.71 x 11.34 x 8.35 IN
Publication Date: September 02, 2025
ISBN9781782509400
Author Selma Lagerlof
PublisherFloris Books
GenreChildren
FormatHardcover
PublishedSeptember 2025
Edition2
LanguageENG- English
Pages108
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceKids
Print SizeStandard Print

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Selma Lagerlöf was born on Nov. 20, 1858, in the province of Varmland, Sweden. She was born at home on the family estate called, Mårbacka. As a child, Selma spent countless hours writing poetry. A childhood illness left her unable to walk for a period of about two years so she spent hours reading books and being educated by governesses. At the age of twenty-two, she took college preparatory classes. She stayed on the family estate until she was twenty-three years old, at which time she enrolled in a teachers' college located at Stockholm. Four years later, she became a teacher for an all-girls secondary school based in Landskrona. After five years of teaching, she had finally finished her first novel and had submitted part of it to a literary contest posted in a Swedish publication. They awarded her first place. The following year in 1891, "Gösta Berling's Saga" was published. Once the book was translated into Danish, it received notoriety that propelled her success in her home country and abroad.

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