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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

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Author(s):Selma Lagerlöf
Illustrator(s):Hans Baumhauer
Translator(s):Velma Swanston Howard
Publisher(s): Pantheon Books
Year Published: 1966
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Adventure
Boys Growing Up
Fantasy - Miscellaneous
Geography
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 539
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 26702629

Description

The adventures of a fourteen year old boy who has been turned into a tomten - a Swedish elf- and set off on the back of a goose to see the sights of Sweden. This abridged edition includes material from both The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and Further Adventures of Nils.

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Other Sequels

Further Adventures of Nils (1911)

The further adventures of a fourteen year old boy who has been turned into a tomten - a Swedish elf - and set off on the back of a goose to see the sights of Sweden. Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co.
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