Elsa Maartman Beskow

When Pelle needs a new suit, he shears the wool from his sheep and enlists the aid of his grandmother, his mother, a painter, and a tailor.

Two acorn children are blown away from home by the wind, they have many adventures with the woodland creatures of the forest.

Princess Sylvie and father, the king, go for a walk in the woods when her dog runs off and they meet many new friends.

A mischievous gnome turns the old tree trunk outside Kai and Kelly's cottage into a dragon which carries the children off to the Land of Long Ago where they meet a princess, rescue a knight, and trick the king of the trolls, but when they return to the old tree trunk they find it has rotted in the sun and they despair of ever getting home.