Calling all Book Collectors - What have you got? What are you hunting for?

83 replies

busybusybee · 01/06/2006 21:27

I have a heap of kids books that are starting to become a family collection!

Just wondering what sort of books other MN collect!!!!

OP posts:

FrannyandZooey · 04/06/2006 12:35

That was you, Fillyjonk

go and do some work instead of talking to yourself on Moomin threads

Fillyjonk · 04/06/2006 12:36

TooTicky · 04/06/2006 18:48

Has anybody else read The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson by Selma Lagerlof?

Fillyjonk · 04/06/2006 19:07

no, but it sounds scandinavia. talk more.

Rhubarb · 04/06/2006 19:09

wtf??

TooTicky · 04/06/2006 19:15

Originally written for use in schools, to educate children about Sweden. Nils is a bad, unhelpful boy who gets turned small and travels around Sweden on the back of a goose. Beautifully written. I got mine from ebay, then - joy of joy - quite by chance found the sequel in a little second hand bookshop in Bradford-on-Avon. Selma Lagerlof's memoirs are also well worth reading. Incidentally, Nils Holgersson on the goose and Selma Lagerlof are featured on the Swedish 20kronor note. Don't buy one for a silly price on ebay as they are still in use and 20SEK is less than £2.

Fillyjonk · 04/06/2006 19:17

wow

\link{http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/lagerlof/nils/nils.html\online too!}

that does look nice...

Fillyjonk · 04/06/2006 19:19

hmmm. we don't seem to have books like this in our schools.

Could this be why our social problems are so much greater than the Scandinavians?

Hmmm, I shall ponder.

Flip

1 2 3 4