Mera Sagar, hyss & aventer is a generous collection volume with a whole range of Astrid Lindgren's finest picture books, richly illustrated in color by several of the very best cartoonists for children. Some of the fairy tales have never before been illustrated in color: Jump the highest and The Princess Who Couldn't Play, while others are dear reunions: That Emil, Pippi Goes to Shops, Sure Lotta Can Bike, Nils Karlsson-Pyssling Moves In, Spring in the Noise Village, There are no robbers in the forest and Sunnanäng.
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The first to bring Astrid Lindgren's books abroad was the publisher Damm & Søn in Oslo, with their Norwegian edition of "Pippi Longstocking" already appearing in 1946. This marked the beginning of a long-standing relationship. Today, most of her books in Norway are published by Cappelen Damm, a publishing house formed through the merger of Cappelen and Damm. Astrid's book adaptations into films also became popular in Norway, as did her famous songs. One of Astrid Lindgren's favorite books was "Hunger" by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun; she often mentioned it as one of her greatest reading experiences.