When the book begins, Emil has carved his ninety-seventh wooden old man, and when it ends, he has had time for one hundred and twenty-five old men. Then you can calculate how many pranks he has had time for in the meantime, for example how he poured the felt over his father and celebrated his hundred old man's anniversary in the carpenter's shed and how he made the Stora Tabberaset in Katthult when he invited all the poor women to a Christmas party.The second book about Emil in Lönneberga, one of the most beloved of all Astrid Lindgren's characters, and the one she herself liked best. The stories about Emil are based on her own father Samuel August and everything he told about his childhood in Småland at the end of the 19th century.In the spring of 2021, new editions of the three Emil books will come, with restored and colored illustrations.