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

[busybusybee]

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

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

That was you, Fillyjonk

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

:o

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

no, but it sounds scandinavia. talk more.

wtf??

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.

wow

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

that does look nice...

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.