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Available
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Series
Collection
Publication
Puffin Books (1988), Edition: Reissue, 128 pages
Description
Ten-year-old Lisa tells about her brothers and playmates and the happy times they spend at work and at play in their Swedish village.
User reviews
LibraryThing member GingerbreadMan
I’m the father of a very early reader, fairly fluent at three and a half years, and for this summer’s trip to the country we decided to try and keep the bulk of picture books down by trying a chapter book for slightly older children to read out loud. He loved it, and we’ve had a grwat time
The books about Noisy Village were my favorites when I was a child, although it’s hard to understand why – on the surface at least. Not full of gently anarchy like Pippi, or the fantasy of Ronja or the Brothers Lionheart, these books tell mainly of the games and everyday life of a group of children in a very small farming village in the early 1900-eds. At a quick glance it even looks mundane, but re-reading it for the first time as an adult it still works it’s quiet magic on me, with the exciting games the kids come up with – treasure hunts, digging caves in haystacks, sneaking out at night to look for folklore creatures and so on. The only thing that peeves me now is the endless polarization of boys versus girls, but at least the girls are allowed to come out triumphant at times.
We started with this, the middle book of the three, since that was the one we happened to have at home. But we bought the other two books on our visit to the Astrid Lindgren theme park just a few weeks ago, and are now almost through with the first book as well.
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snuggling up by the fire as dusk sets outside to read a chapter or two of Astrid Lindgen. The books about Noisy Village were my favorites when I was a child, although it’s hard to understand why – on the surface at least. Not full of gently anarchy like Pippi, or the fantasy of Ronja or the Brothers Lionheart, these books tell mainly of the games and everyday life of a group of children in a very small farming village in the early 1900-eds. At a quick glance it even looks mundane, but re-reading it for the first time as an adult it still works it’s quiet magic on me, with the exciting games the kids come up with – treasure hunts, digging caves in haystacks, sneaking out at night to look for folklore creatures and so on. The only thing that peeves me now is the endless polarization of boys versus girls, but at least the girls are allowed to come out triumphant at times.
We started with this, the middle book of the three, since that was the one we happened to have at home. But we bought the other two books on our visit to the Astrid Lindgren theme park just a few weeks ago, and are now almost through with the first book as well.
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LibraryThing member datimasa
Quaint and enjoyable. Girls and I liked reading it out loud.
LibraryThing member Cheryl_in_CC_NV
Ok, I suppose this is not likely to appeal a lot to adults who don't read picture-books, but *I* personally, was utterly enchanted. I want to be one of these children, or one of the parents, or the teacher - what an absolutely delightful community. I'm 3/8 Swedish, and after reading this I can
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guess from which family traditions I got a lot of the ethics of kindness, and of finding joy in simple things, and of having fun in any season. Show Less
LibraryThing member fuzzi
Delightful read about a young girl, her family, and two other families that live in close proximity to each other in the Swedish countryside. I love how the children are real, and the adults aren't treated as buffoons. The author adds some Swedish traditions to the mix that make this book even more
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special. Now I have to find the other books in the series... Show Less
LibraryThing member quondame
A pleasant series of normal life in rural Sweden mid 20th century. The illustrations are charming but show children much younger than 9-12 and in the US we never wore such short dresses as pre-teen girls before the mid-60s anyway, so I don't really find them realistic for Sweden and that kept
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bugging me constantly. Show Less
Language
Original language
Swedish
Original publication date
1961
Physical description
128 p.; 7.6 x 0.4 inches
ISBN
014032609X / 9780140326093