Selma Lagerlöf 
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils 

/’There isn/’t much that tastes better than to receive praise from those who are themselves wise and capable; and the boy had certainly never felt so happy as he did when the wild goose and the stork talked about him in this way./‘
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils is a work of fiction by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. The novel is one of Lagerlöf/’s most well-known books, and it has been translated into more than 30 languages.
The book is about a 14-year-old young lad, Nils Holgersson, who had been shrunk to the size of a thumb and who travelled on the back of a goose across the country.