The Lagerlöf, Selma 1858-1940 creator author. Norlén, Paul R. translator. Lybeck, Bertil 1887-1945 illustrator. text enk UK Penguin Random House 2017 2016 monographic eng swe

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217 pages ; 20 cm. 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. juvenile Selma Lagerlöf ; translated from the Swedish by Paul Norlén ; illustrations by Bertil Lybeck. First published in Swedish as "Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige" in 1906-7. MLCS 2019/42336 (P) 839 LAG 9780241206096 2018285241 DLC 180508 20200114153238.0 20488307