Swedish fairy tales (Skyhorse Publishing)

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 aby Sweden'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 love--the world of Jack and the Beanstalk, Hansel and Gretel, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears--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.