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Welcome to Noisy Village! Well, it's not really quite what it sounds. Lisa, who tells the story, lives on Middle Farm with her parents and two brothers, Karl and Bill. Britta and Anna live at North Farm and Olaf and Kerstin live at South Farm. It is because the houses are right next door to each other in a clump as they liked to do these things in rural Sweden years ago, and because the because the children make so much racket that the farmhouses came to be so honestly and happily named. A large linden tree grows between Middle and South Farms and so the boys in the two houses visit each other by climbing through the branches--even the girls do it sometimes, like the night they all waited for Olaf to go to sleep so that they could pull out his loose tooth without his knowing it! That is only one of the many escapades designed to make readers young and old wish they could step right into the pages of this little book.
Join the fun in this companion volume to The Children of Noisy Village (published by Viking Penguin). Illustrated with delightful line drawings by Ilon Wikland; translated by Florence Lamborn.
Join the fun in this companion volume to The Children of Noisy Village (published by Viking Penguin). Illustrated with delightful line drawings by Ilon Wikland; translated by Florence Lamborn.
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About the Author:
Though best known for her books about the mischievous and larger-than-life Pippi Longstocking, author Astrid Lindgren, born in 1907, wrote numerous other books about children and family life that were more conventional. Her writing was greatly influenced by a vividly remembered childhood on a farm called Naas in southern Sweden. Here she met a surprising variety of people whose characters later enriched both her real stories and her fairy tales, a number of which, as in the stories of Noisy Village, also reflect the rural serenity of Smaaland as it was when she was a child.
Astrid Lindgren showed a talent for writing early in her life but she purposely decided that she would never write a book. Nevertheless, after her marriage to Sture Lindgren in 1931, she did begin telling stories from her childhood to her two children, Lars and Karin. It was Karin, sick with pneumonia, who one day said to her mother, Tell me about Pippi Longstocking, and thus was born the character who became the focus of many family storytelling sessions and, later, the star of Astrid Lindgren s first book. For after falling and spraining her ankle one winter, Mrs. Lindgren finally changed her mind about writing and set down the tales of Pippi for her daughter s tenth birthday in 1944. This manuscript went on to win first prize in a contest and the prolific career of writing was launched.
Astrid Lindgren was honored many times in many ways during the course of her lifetime, winning the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1958, and receiving the tribute of a set of commemorative Swedish stamps designed by illustrators of her books upon her eightieth birthday.
There are many imaginative ways of feeding a child s imagination. We have much to be grateful for in Astrid Lindgren s appealing portrayal of a simple rural life of another day in her Noisy Village books, as well as in her humorous and fanciful tales that so effortlessly carry children into worlds beyond their own.
Astrid Lindgren died on January 28, 2002 at the age of 94.
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Astrid Lindgren showed a talent for writing early in her life but she purposely decided that she would never write a book. Nevertheless, after her marriage to Sture Lindgren in 1931, she did begin telling stories from her childhood to her two children, Lars and Karin. It was Karin, sick with pneumonia, who one day said to her mother, Tell me about Pippi Longstocking, and thus was born the character who became the focus of many family storytelling sessions and, later, the star of Astrid Lindgren s first book. For after falling and spraining her ankle one winter, Mrs. Lindgren finally changed her mind about writing and set down the tales of Pippi for her daughter s tenth birthday in 1944. This manuscript went on to win first prize in a contest and the prolific career of writing was launched.
Astrid Lindgren was honored many times in many ways during the course of her lifetime, winning the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1958, and receiving the tribute of a set of commemorative Swedish stamps designed by illustrators of her books upon her eightieth birthday.
There are many imaginative ways of feeding a child s imagination. We have much to be grateful for in Astrid Lindgren s appealing portrayal of a simple rural life of another day in her Noisy Village books, as well as in her humorous and fanciful tales that so effortlessly carry children into worlds beyond their own.
Astrid Lindgren died on January 28, 2002 at the age of 94.
'One of those books which has the feel-good factor' * Caroline Franklin, Newbury Weekly News * 'Perfect for children starting to read on their own' * Parents in Touch * 'Nostalgia really is what it's cracked up to be in this utterly enchanting story of a group of children growing up in the golden days' * Lancashire Evening Post *
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- PublisherViking Juvenile
- Publication date1963
- ISBN 10 0670361208
- ISBN 13 9780670361205
- BindingHardcover
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