D'Aulaires' Book of Trolls
By Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire



Trolls of all kinds—mountain trolls, forest trolls, trolls who live underwater and trolls who live under bridges, uncouth, unkempt, unbearable, unforgettable, and invariably unbelievably ugly trolls—fill the pages of D'Aulaires' Book of Trolls, the spectacularly illustrated and delightfully entertaining companion volume to the much-acclaimed D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths.

Here the husband-and-wife team of Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire explore the shadow side of Norse mythology, the night world in which the trolls work their wiles and carry on in the most bizarre and entertaining fashions, hunting for babies to eat or squabbling with each other in the blueberry patch. Trolls with multiple heads, trolls with heads they carry under their arms, and trolls with only one eye to share around, along with troll wives, whose long red noses are just the thing for stirring soup, roam the mountains of the north by night and retreat by day to sleep in caves full of silver and gold.

With their matchless talent as storytellers and illustrators, the d'Aulaires bring to life the weird and wonderful world of Norse mythology.

Publishers Weekly awarded the recently released New York Review Children's Collection edition of D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths the 2005 "Cuffie" Award for the book they were happiest to see back in print.

Reviews

The D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths taught a generation about the legends on which much of literature is based. Now their D'Aulaires' Book of Trolls by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, first published in 1972, returns to print to shed light on another staple of Norway: the magical trolls, 'as old and moss-grown as the mountains themselves,' in all their diversity.
— Publishers Weekly

Available once again, this beautifully lithographed collection of lore introduces children to some of traditional literature's bad boys (and girls).
— School Library Journal

D'Aulaires' Trolls, an informative Baedekar on the moss-grown mountains of Norway and their weird inhabitants of more than a century ago, exemplifies a happy balance of art and text...Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire have completed the legends and descriptions with fittingly grotesque color and black-and-white sketches of myriad trolls.
— The Washington Post

...A title deserving a place on every child's bookshelf.
— Smithsonian Magazine

...A nearly perfect picture book.
— The New York Times

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Looks very nice - i always had a thing for witches and trolls, not only as a child

Trolls always seem much more friendly in book form for children than they ever are in adult books or in film ( even on the internet ) I too used to own trolls. Pink haired, orange haired and bright acidic lime green haired. Even little ones as a key ring that dangled from the belt loop of my denim skirt. I loved them!