The wonderful adventure of Nils Holgersson /
Lagerlöf, Selma, 1858-1940,
The wonderful adventure of Nils Holgersson / Selma Lagerlöf ; translated from the Swedish by Paul Norlén ; illustrations by Bertil Lybeck. - UK Penguin Random House - 217 pages ; 20 cm. - Penguin classics. . - Penguin classics. .
First published in Swedish as "Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige" in 1906-7.
Nils Holgersson is a naughty boy who pulls the tails of cats and trips up his mother while she is carrying the milk pail. Then one day he discovers he has been magically turned into a tiny imp. He climbs on the back of a gander and takes off with a flock of wild geese as they fly over Sweden, soaring above patchwork fields, through storms, to castles and lakes and even to a city under the sea. As he learns about the world, he also learns what it means to care for living things.
9780241206096
2018285241
MLCS 2019/42336 (P)
839 LAG
The wonderful adventure of Nils Holgersson / Selma Lagerlöf ; translated from the Swedish by Paul Norlén ; illustrations by Bertil Lybeck. - UK Penguin Random House - 217 pages ; 20 cm. - Penguin classics. . - Penguin classics. .
First published in Swedish as "Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige" in 1906-7.
Nils Holgersson is a naughty boy who pulls the tails of cats and trips up his mother while she is carrying the milk pail. Then one day he discovers he has been magically turned into a tiny imp. He climbs on the back of a gander and takes off with a flock of wild geese as they fly over Sweden, soaring above patchwork fields, through storms, to castles and lakes and even to a city under the sea. As he learns about the world, he also learns what it means to care for living things.
9780241206096
2018285241
MLCS 2019/42336 (P)
839 LAG