Nils Holgersson's Journey with the Geese

Author: (Swedish) Selma Lagerl?f
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: Open this little book, and you will immediately join Nils on his white goose, soaring among the blue sky and white clouds, embarking on a wonderful aerial journey. Thrilling adventures and beautiful legends will make you friends with knowledge, light, freedom, responsibility, kindness, courage, and dignity, forever knowing, loving, and cherishing each other. The protagonist of this fairy tale is Nils, a 14-year-old boy from a rural area in southern Sweden. His parents are kind, hardworking, and extremely poor farmers, but Nils is rough and very mischievous, with no interest in reading and a love for pranks and bullying small animals. One early spring, his parents went to church, and at home, he was transformed into a thumb-sized dwarf by a small sprite after teasing it. Just then, a flock of geese flew overhead, and the goose at home, Morten, also wanted to spread its wings and follow them. To prevent the goose from flying away, Nils tightly hugged its neck, only to be carried up into the sky by the goose. From then on, he rode on the goose's back, following the geese south and north, all the way to the northern Lapland province.