Emil i Lönneberga (Swedish)

The people in Lönneberga felt sorry for the Svenssons in Katthult who had such a son. What if they had known that Emil would become chairman of the municipal committee when he grew up! But this book is not about that, it is about the house, like that time Emil got his head stuck in the soup bowl and that unfortunate Sunday when he hoisted little Ida up the flagpole. The first 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.