Part of Unicef's Storycraft Book series, intended to "give young people an authentic introduction to the cultural traditions of other children around the world," The Boy Who Ate More Than the Giant contains three tales from Sweden, offering younger children an excellent introduction to the folk tradition of the that country.
Here is the titular The Boy Who Ate More Than the Giant, in which a clever young boys outwits a massive giant on numerous occasions, both as a goatherd, and as the giant's servant. Here is The Master Tailor, in which, after much work, a tailor manages to make nothing of a piece of cloth brought to him by a small gentleman. Finally, here is The Three Billy Goats Bruse (probably better known in its Norwegian variant, The Three Billy Goats Gruff), in which three goat brothers must contend with the troll who lives under the bridge over which they must pass, in order to get to better pastures.
