The book is about a young lad, Nils Holgersson, whose "chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief." He takes great delight in hurting the animals in his family farm.
Nils rejects the offer and the tomte turns Nils into a tomte, which leaves him.
The tomte proposes to Nils that if Nils frees him, the tomte will give him a huge gold coin.
Nils captures a tomte in a net while his family is at church and have left him home to memorize chapters from the Bible.
The book is about a young lad, Nils Holgersson, whose "chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief." He takes great delight in hurting the animals in his family farm