Niels Holgersson's Wonderbare Reis

by Selma Lagerlöf

"Niels Holgersson's Wonderbare Reis" by Selma Lagerlöf and Margaretha Meijboom is a children's book written in 1906. Young Nils Holgersson delights in tormenting farm animals until an angry kabouter shrinks him to thumb-size. When wild geese fly overhead, Nils unexpectedly joins them on their journey north to Lapland. Traveling across Sweden on the back of a goose, the tiny boy faces danger, adventure, and life lessons that transform him in unexpected ways.