Reddit reviews Swedish Folk Tales

[Johan Bauer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bauer_(illustrator) was a Swedish artist born in 1882. He drowned on a regular ferry trip when he was only 36 a long with his family. He painted for a Swedish book series called "Among Elfs and Trolls" (I did a direct translation from Swedish there) that started out in 1907.

He did several paintings. These are my fav ones:

Heading out to see the world

Mountain troll brings home the loot

Sad girl outside the troll cave

Here is the biggest list of his paintings that I could find, but it is almost overwhelming to see them all lined up. They are so magical and prodigious when separated. If you ever visit Sweden and head down crowded city streets, you will see some traces of his art here and there in the tourist shops. His presence in the Swedish culture heritage is forever accepted.

Edit: I'm really happy for all the Bauer fans out there. Also, there seems to be a lot of cool parents having Bauer posters above beds!

Edit 2: Here's a sample from the book "Det bästa ur Bland tomtar och troll : vår mest älskade sagoskatt". Translates to "The best from Among Hobs and Trolls: Our most beloved story treasure" (Thanks to Bo87)

Edit 3: Here is a John Bauer book in English. (Thanks to sweeneh)

The Tomten by Astrid Lindgren is a classic young children's book. http://www.amazon.com/Tomten-Astrid-Lindgren/dp/0698115910/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373923417&sr=1-1&keywords=the+tomten

Swedish Folk Tales is worth the price alone for Bauer's illustrations. I'd place reading age closer to 10-12, but again, the pictures are lovely. Some of the stories are appropriate for a younger age if you don't mind reading them.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0863154573/ref=oh_details_o04_s01_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Yeah, it's correct.

I don't really know why it's confusing for you?

Gnome and Trolls is an anthology (A published collection of poems or other pieces of writing.) which was given out each Christmas between 1907-1915.

Tuvstarr (Sagan om älgtjuren Skutt och lilla prinsessan Tuvstarr / The Tale of the Moose Hop and the Little Princess Cotton Grass) was in the 1913 edition.

I guess the problem is finding English prints? There are several in Swedish at least. I'm guessing that people where a lot more interested in the painting itself then the short story.

http://media.bonnierforlagen.se/bladderex/?isbn=9789163866067

http://www.bokus.com/bok/9789163866067/sagan-om-algtjuren-skutt-och-lilla-prinsessan-tuvstarr/


It seems that http://www.amazon.com/Swedish-Folk-Tales-Polly-Lawson/dp/0863154573 does NOT include Tuvstarr and Swedish Fairy Tales is just a re-print of Folk Tales with lower res pictures.

it might be included here, but I'm not sure https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1529730.Great_Swedish_Fairy_Tales otherwise I think your best shot is to contact the publisher Bonnier Carlsen and ask them if there is a English print of Tuvstarr

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Originally a Swedish folk tales book released each Christmas. I found this on amazon.

Might it have been a volume of Swedish (or international) folk/fairy tales? There's a Swedish folk tale called The Queen's Necklace (or The Queen's Pearl Necklace).

"King Hendrik is cruel and greedy, taxing his people to the point of starvation. His prized possession is a string of 100 pearls, 99 of them flawless and 1 small and imperfect. He is lacking only a queen and orders his nephew, Prince Nils, to find him a perfect bride. Nils returns with Blanzeflor, a lovely and kind young woman willing to marry King Hendrik so that her father won't starve. The king gives her the pearls, warning that the day they are not around her neck will be her last. She finds that she cannot bear to see her people suffer, and one by one the pearls are sent to help them. When they are all gone, Blanzeflor is sentenced to death, but the birds she has cared for and who witnessed her kindness rescue her and destroy the king."

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:If_someone_else_cries_when_you_laugh_then_you_will_have_your_tears_back_by_John_Bauer_1914.jpg

*Edit: the above illustration was for an anthology of Swedish folk tales called Among the Gnomes and Trolls, illustrated by John Bauer.

**Edit again: John Bauer's illustrations were reproduced in Swedish Folk Tales: https://www.amazon.com/Swedish-Folk-Tales-John-Bauer/dp/0863154573/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0863154573&pd_rd_r=CERG67SV18B67AK2RGQE&pd_rd_w=qwFCW&pd_rd_wg=Bg2O2&psc=1&refRID=CERG67SV18B67AK2RGQE