Happy Times in Noisy Village

astrid lindgren ilon wikland florence lamborn

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 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."

Genres childrensclassicsfictionswedish literatureswedenchapter booksmiddle gradehistorical fictionscandinavian literatureschool

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1949

Series

Barnen i Bullerbyn

Places

småland, sweden,

This edition

Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Published: July 1, 2003 by Bethlehem Books
ISBN: 9781883937669
ASIN: 1883937663
Language: English

Characters More characters

Lisa (the Children Of Noisy Village)

the kindhearted 9-year-old narrator; she lives at Middle Farm...
Karl (the Children Of Noisy Village)

Lisas mischievous 11-year-old brothermore...
Bill (the Children Of Noisy Village)

Lisas 10-year-old brothermore...
Anna (the Children Of Noisy Village)

Lisas best friend, aged 9, and neighbor at North Farmmore...
Britta (the Children Of Noisy Village)

Lisas 11-year-old neighbor at North Farm; Anna is her sistermore...
Olof (the Children Of Noisy Village)

Lisas 10-year-old neighbor at South Farmmore...

About the author

astrid lindgren

Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren, née Ericsson, (1907 - 2002) was a Swedish children's book author and screenwriter, whose many titles were translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100 countries. She has sold roughly 165 million copies worldwide. Today, she is most remembered for writing the Pippi Longstocking books, as well as the Karlsson-on-the-Roof book series.

Awards:
Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing (1958)