Emil in Lönneberga
Even if five-year-old Emil looks angelic, everybody knows he’s wild and stubborn, and gets up to more mischief than there are days in the year. He’s a clever and curious scatterbrain with an amazing gift for turning his God-fearing and respectable community, in the county of Småland, upside down.
Emil’s mischiefs are always hilarious and never mean. His wild ideas generally stem from his kind and caring personality. He can’t stand to see others suffer and will do anything to help… He has only good intentions, but acts of his own accord without due regard for social hierarchy or grown-up authority. He’s a streetwise farm-boy, and, unlike the people of Lönneberga, the reader is aware that one day he will make a success out of his life and shine in the role of Chairman of the local government.
Books about Emil
Emil around the world
The books about Emil have been translated into 53 languages and have sold around 30 million copies, often published with the fantastic original illustrations. The Emil books are continuously released in new editions and printings in the Nordic neighboring countries, as well as in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and other countries in Europe. The Småland setting where Emil grows up, which we perceive as so genuinely Swedish, shares much in common with rural conditions all over the world. The latest translations of Emil are in Hebrew, Vietnamese, Turkish, and Chuvash!
Products with Emil
View all Emil-products“S’not something you plan, mischief, it just happens. And knowing it’s mischief, well you don’t until it’s happened.”
Emil in Lönneberga
The story behind Emil
“Do you know what Emil i Lönneberga once did?”, Astrid suddenly asked her three year-old grandchild who was screaming his head off. Karl Johan went quiet, because he was rather keen to know what Emil had done.
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