When Anders wakes up on his wedding day, he finds himself naked in an elevator, only remembering some of what happened.

Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an unusually lively little boy, who just can't resist trying out every whim that enters into his white-haired head. Always with the best intentions in mind, because he is a good-hearted child, but of...

Emil's reputation for being a troublemaker makes the Svensson family's neighbours take up a collection for sending the boy off to America. But even if he among other unfortunate mishaps causes his father to get stuck in the outhouse window and get bitten by crawfish, all is forgotten when he skillfully wins the family a free horse. And...

Nursing a piglet back to life because it's the runt of the litter earns Emil a friend for life.

The story of the children who live in Bullerbyn, Sweden, through the spring and summer months.