Tales to charm and beguile: 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 world’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.

John Bauer illustrated the work of nearly all well-known Swedish storytellers, many of whom appear in this book. If the illustrations seem to be of another time, that's because they are. Bauer was born in the late nineteenth-century, and died in 1918 at the age of 36.

Sturdy softcover, 239 pages. 2023 edition of the original Swedish edition that was published in 1966.