This is a shorter version of the 400 page book about Emil's adventures - Emil being probably the most famous boy in Scandinavian literature and much loved by adults and children alike. It was especially enjoyable reading aloud to my youngest daughter this time as we read it right before and after visiting Astrid Lindgren's World in Sweden - a theme park devoted to Lindgren's stories, and a park which is quaint and lovely, full of birch trees, and which included a stellar performance about/with Emil which nearly brought a tear to my eye (what with all the well-known songs and cast and having grown up with the story myself). Ah, that was such a brilliant book to read!!! For one thing I'm proud I've just finished my first book in Swedish, and I also so loved to revisit the stories of Emil - in German Michel - that I read as a child. Astrid Lindgren always has been one of my favourite authors and THE favourite author when I was small, I've read nearly all of her books and the characters and stories are still present in my mind though it's been a long long time since I read any of those stories. So I'm really looking forward to the next books of her I'm going to read. And I find it so so pleasing I can now read them in the original and at the same time get better in Swedish :-) Bra!
What do You think about Emil I Lönneberga (1963)?
I loved Astrid Lindgren's books growing up in the early 1990s...
—Ayie
One of my childhood's absolute favourites.
—smlovestoread
