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Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Rev. Ed.) cooking_minnesota Color photos throughoutAdventure through Sweden in this beautifully illustrated and sensitively abridged edition of Selma Lagerlf's classic Swedish tale. When schoolboy Nils is magically shrunk to a tiny size, he begins a perilous journey traveling the length of Sweden. Soaring through the sky on the back of a goose, Nils discovers the wild and the wondrous: from frozen lakes and snow topped mountains to lost cities, new friends and dangerous foes. Will he ever be able to