Lone Thygesen Blecher and George Blecher are award-winning translators of Swedish and Danish. Their numerous children’s book translations include If You Didn’t Have Me by Ulf Nilsson and The Battle Horse by Harry Kullman, which won the Mildred Batchelder Award from the American Library Association as the best foreign children's book and best foreign young adult book of the year.
"A wonderful collection. The creatures that appear repeatedly in these particular tales are numerous, varied, and familiar—giants, trolls, household spirits, water spirits, nightmare hags, etc.—and their stories, sorted into such categories as ‘True Dummies and Clever Folk,’ ‘How to Win the Princess,’ ‘Heroes and Heroines,’ and ‘Moral Tales,’ are funny, unusual, and enlightening."—Booklist"An adeptly translated collection. Black-and-white illustrations recall a Swedish golden age."—Library Journal"The translations of the tales themselves are lively and fluent."—Scandinavian Studies
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