The Brothers Lionheart
    1973

    The Brothers Lionheart

    Type:Chapter Book
    Author:Astrid Lindgren
    Illustrator:Ilon Wikland
    Publisher:Oxford University Press

    Nangijala is the land of campfires and fairytales, and that’s where you go when you die. This is what Jonatan Lion tells his brother Scotty who is lying there seriously ill. How terrible it is that some have to die before they’ve even turned ten – how can this be? Scotty wonders. I think it’s going to be wonderful for you, Jonathan reassures him. In Nangijala your life will be an adventure from morning till night – and even all through the night. Because Nangijala is the place where fairytales happen.

    It was a gravestone on Vimmerby churchyard that gave Astrid the idea for the eternally topical story of the Brothers Lionheart, her second most translated book. The stone said: “Here rest the frail brothers Fahlén, died 1860”. She then knew that it was to become a story about death and two brothers.

    The greatest gift of an author is that their work should stay with the reader forever. This story will.
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    Translator: Joan Tate

    The Brothers Lionheart

    The Brothers Lionheart

    The Brothers Lionheart

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