Finished 4th June 2017

150 Pieces

"Le Voyage de Nils"

Illustration by Delphine Labedan

A Micro-Puzzle edited by LONDJI, Spain, with a total dimension of 10x15cm only

I already assembled a few of them 

The illustration refers to the famous novel of Selma Lagerlöf (Sweden, 1858-1940)

"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 captures a tomte in a net while his family is at church and have left him home to memorize chapters from the Bible. The tomte proposes to Nils that if Nils frees him, the tomte will give him a huge gold coin. Nils rejects the offer and the tomte turns Nils into a tomte, which leaves him shrunken and able to talk with animals, who are thrilled to see the boy reduced to their size and are angry and hungry for revenge. While this is happening, wild geese are flying over the farm on one of their migrations, and a white farm goose attempts to join the wild ones. In an attempt to salvage something before his family returns, Nils holds on to the bird's neck as it successfully takes off and joins the wild birds." (wikipedia)