About this title: "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils" is the work of Sweden's greatest fiction writer. She devoted three years to nature study and to familiarizing herself with animal and bird life, and wove them all into her story.
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Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London.
Date Published: 1953
Description: H. Baumhauer. Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 293pp, colour plates & drawings in the text. Original patterned cloth. DW is a little worn. The Children's Illustrated Classics. read more
Description: Reprint; 8vo; ix, 294pp + ads. Illustrated by H. Baumhauer; Colour frontis. Patterned endpapers. Original colour pictorial covers. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper. read more
Edition: Hardcover
Binding: Good to Fair
Publisher: J. M. Dent, London
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780460050142ISBN:0460050141
Description: H. Baumhauer. Fair to Good in Poor jacket. Children's Fiction Front Bookcase: The Swedish fable of a young boy who was cruel to animals and how he was taught otherwise. The book is in pretty good shape, but the dj is quite torn up. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J.M. Dent and Sons, London
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780460050142ISBN:0460050141
Description: Baumhauer, H. Very Good Minus in Good Plus jacket. Illustrated in black and white and color. Moderate wear to dustjacket. Binding very slightly cocked. read more
Description: G&D c1907 (reprint, no date), hardcover, illustrated end page, no internal markings, a tight solid copy, near VERY GOOD in a GOOD+ bright dust jacket, in a new clear mylar DJ cover; B&W Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City
Date Published: 1969
Description: Malmberg, Hans. Very Good in Good jacket. Children's Illustrated Clean, bright, crisp and tight. A little edge and shelfwear. Price clipped. Summary: Nils becomes elf size and is carried by geese to Lapland. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Decorated cloth board cover
Publisher: J M Dent & Co, London
Date Published: 1950
Description: VG: in very good condition with chipped and torn dustwrapper. 294pp: Colour frontis and plates with b/w drawings: 200mm x 150mm (8" x 6") read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon
Date Published: 1947
Description: Good. Used-good condition, clean bright copy with numerous illustrations, previous owner inscription, some loosening of front cover at spine. Dustjacket in poor condition with major wear. read more
Edition: School Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City N.Y.
Date Published: 1907
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Green cloth boards, black titleing, covers are shelf scuffed, soiled, tips and edges bumped and frayed, spine sunned. Binding tight with a slight slant. pages clean, no names, writing or bookplates, light age toneing. 430 pgs. read more
Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, New York
Date Published: 1930
Description: Mary Hamilton Frye. Good. No dust jacket. Book condition: good-very good. Dj condition: no dj. Pictorial boards. Tight binding, clean interior. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Date Published: 1947
Description: Illus by H. Baumhauer. Very good in very good dust jacket. Translated from the Swedish. Beige cloth, silver title to spine & vignette to front. 200 b/w illustrations. Tiny foxspots to top half of covers. Contents fine. Price-cut pictorial wrapper is browned at spine and lightly rubbed at corners. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York
Date Published: 1995
Description: This is the enchanting and remarkably original tale of Nils Holgersson, a mischievous boy of 14 who is changed by an elf into a tiny being able to understand the speech of birds and animals. Brilliantly weaving fact and fiction, the story recounts Nil's adventures as he is transported over the countryside on the back of a goose. From this vantage point, Nils witnesses a host of events that provide young readers with an abundance of information about nature, geography, folklore, animal life and ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon, [New York]
Date Published: 1947
Description: H. Baumhauer. Good. No dust jacket. Po's Name OnTitle Page. Text in English, Swedish. 539 p. illus., map (on lining-papers) 24 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Maps. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
"This might be a little slow for a modern audience, but there were some real gems in it, like the chapters The City at the Bottom of the Sea, and The Old Peasant Woman. The basic plot is that a mischievous boy, who has been told to study the Bible while his parents are at church, gets turned into an elf after he spies an elf in the house and tries to capture it. As an elf, he has many adventures while riding on top of a goose migrating north. I was disappointed by the ending-- I thought he'd go home and be changed back into a boy again. I've since learned there is a sequel, so I guess I need to track that down. My 7-year old son enjoyed it."
Pour sêtre moqué d'un lutin de sa maison, Nils va être ensorcelé et devenir à son tour tout petit.
A quatorze ans, Nils Holgersson est un vilain garnement. Un jour, il joue un de ses méchant tour à un lutin.
Celui-ci se venge en transformant Nils en nain. Minuscule et perdu dans la prairie, Nils voit passer un vol d'oies sauvages en migration.
S'accrochant au cou de Akka, son jar préférée pour l'empêcher de partir, il se sent emporté dans les airs. Commence alors pour lui un fantastique et merveilleux voyage à travers la Suède."
"I read this for a Scandinavian Children's Literature class in college (surprisingly, one of the best classes I've ever had--thanks Elizabeth for suggesting it). I read several really interesting books in this class and this one is the story of a Swedish boy, Nils, who sees the whole of Sweden and learns about Swedish geography while flying on top a goose. It was originally commissioned by the National Teachers Association as a geography reader for the public schools. I wish the American school system did stuff like that."
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