Synopses & Reviews
Wicked magicians, angry trolls, mysterious elves, and nimble gnomes are just a few of the characters who inhabit this entertaining collection of twenty-one popular Swedish fairy tales. Stories of knights in search of princesses, forest creatures frequenting caverns, and fairies who grant wishes are told in the spirit of tradition and imagination in this anthology. Spellbinding art by Swedenand#8217;s greatest fairy tale illustrator, John Bauer, brings these folktales to life.
The enchanted world of fairy tales that generations of Americans have come to know and loveand#151;the world of Jack and the Beanstalk, Hansel and Gretel, and Goldilocks and the Three Bearsand#151;has come to include Swedish favorites, such as:
The Seven Wishes
The Trolls and the Youngest Tomte
The Changelings
Leap the Elk and Little Princess Cottongrass
And many more
Holger Lundbergh translates an imaginative, wonderful world of mystery and magic for young and old alike to behold.
Synopsis
These are stories filled with wicked magicians, troublesome trolls, teasing magpies, and solemn tomtar. In Swedish fairy tales, frogs become beautiful fairy girls, troll girls marry troll princes, kings transform into woodcutters, and little boys go searching for adventure in the forest. This collection of twenty-one marvelous tales includes:
The Seven Wishes
The Trolls and the Youngest Tomte
The Changelings
Leap the Elk and Little Princess Cottongrass
The Queen
And many more
These stories are clever and fun, full of adventure and magic. A world of wonder and mystery is brought to life by the spellbinding art of one of the worldand#8217;s greatest illustrators of fairy tales, John Bauer. His big-nosed, good-natured trolls are sure to delight, while his heroes and heroines shine brightly, bringing hope and goodness to dark places.
About the Author
Holger Lundbergh is the grandson of the famous Danish storyteller Helena Nyblom. He has published numerous articles and a book of poetry, as well as translations from Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
John Bauer illustrated the work of nearly all well-known Swedish storytellers, many of whom appear in this book. He died at the age of thirty-six in 1918.