Age: 4-9 years
Size: 20 x 26 cm / Hardcover: 32 pages.
Year of publication: 2022
Translated from: Sergiu Pduraru

Emil is a symbol of childhood as it should be: free and happy. He is a mischievous boy from the distant village of Katthult in Sweden. As people say about him, he is a mischievous child like no other, and his pranks have become famous in the village and surrounding areas. Along with Pippi Longstocking, he has become one of Astrid Lindgren's most beloved characters.

Emil would get along perfectly with Tom Sawyer or Nick from Crang's "Memoirs". Good people, listen carefully, I will tell you soon what this boy did in the past. Over many stripes and hills, his reputation spread, and from Katthult, Lönneberga, the whole world heard. This boy, Emil from Lönneberga, as I speak of, was a very mischievous child. Not at all well-behaved, like you. But his mother loved him very much and told everyone: "Emil is a very good boy."

Emil lived on the Katthult farm in the village of Lönneberga, in Smaland. There lived his parents, his younger sister Ida, Alfred, a boy who helped on the farm, a girl at home named Lina, and an old woman named Kros-Maya, who sometimes helped around the house. There were horses, cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, and a cat on the farm... But above all, there was Emil. He was everywhere. Honestly, if you looked for a boy like him, you wouldn’t find anyone, and his name was Emil. Now listen to other stories!

Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) is the most famous Swedish children's author. The childhood she spent on her parents' farm, with her brother and two sisters, the love that shook her, the childhood adventures and games were an endless source of inspiration for her stories and characters. Astrid Lindgren grew up surrounded by books and was a lifelong advocate of reading for children. "A childhood without books is not a childhood at all. It’s like being expelled from the magical place where you can find pure joy." Her books have been translated into many languages and have been the subject of numerous adaptations. After the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Astrid Lindgren is the most translated children's author.