The Children of Noisy Village [Paperback]

Astrid Lindgren (Author), Ilon Wikland (Illustrator), Florence Lamborn (Translator)

Book Description

Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up

A charming story about the everyday life of six children living on the three neighboring farms that everybody calls "noisy village" because of its "high spirits." Line illustrations.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Six children from neighboring farms have fun all year long in this charming book by the author of the Pippi Longstocking stories. Ages 8-12.
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Language Notes

Text: English, Swedish (translation)

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Puffin (February 2, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 014032609X
• ISBN-13: 978-0140326093
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,339 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #20 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > People & Places > Where We Live > City Life
  • #33 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Teens > Literature & Fiction > Classics

More About the Author

Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) created the character of Pippi Longstocking to entertain her daughter. Lindgren was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for her contribution to international children's literature.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

43 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Bridge Over Changing Times, April 18, 2008

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Giordano Bruno (Wherever I am, I am.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Children of Noisy Village (Paperback)

My own son is nearly out of high school and will no longer sit on my lap to let me read to him. Imagine! The rascal! But I have two boys, children of my cousin, and a niece, who are beginning to appreciate my reading talents. Their mothers have not been slow to recognize my utility on that front.
Astrid Lindgren was famous in America, years ago, for her Pippi Longstocking books. I think those are still common in bookstores. As an ex-boy reading to a boy, I enjoyed Lindgren's Rasmus books much more, and I loved the "Noisy Village" series. Lindgren's children's books are deliciously old-fashioned and rustic. Rasmus is the Huckleberry Finn of Sweden, and the five children of Noisy Village might remind English readers of Tom Sawyer and Little Women melded together. I read all these books in Swedish, and I'm just becoming acquainted with them in English for my young relatives. The translation is good - not quite as idiomatically piquant as the original, but attractively brash and blunt. Boys will enjoy the stories as much as girls. The target age for hearing these stories is about four to six, and quick-to-read children will be able to handle them at seven.
Life in a village in oldtime Sweden was little different from life in rural areas of the Upper Midwest before TV. Parents also may feel the pull of that good-natured, fundamentally decent community. There are no tickets to the past, however, except in books.

37 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great bedtime reading., January 6, 2002

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Britt Arnhild Lindland (Norway) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Children of Noisy Village (Paperback)

Together with my 6 years old daughter we read this wonderful book by the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren as our bedtime reading. We read the Norwegian version of the book, as my daughter doesn't understand English, but the stories are the same, and the charming illustrations are by Ilon Wikland in our book as well.

This is such wonderful, old fashioned stories, from a time when the most important task of a little girl was to play with her friends, and the greatest worry was where to find the eggs of the old hen. It is so important in our world today that children can dream themselves into the life like it is in the Noisy Village, where everybody knows each other, everybody are friends, and they live a common day to day life. We love the chapters, and my daughter can never have enough of the stories.

The book reminds me in a way of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, though this story is set in Sweden, and shows us the traditional life of the Swedish countryside from the middle of the last century.

I can recommend this book for parents and grandparents that are looking for a charming read for their kids.

Britt Arnhild Lindland in Norway

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book that was ever written., July 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Children of Noisy Village (Turtleback)

This is Nils (16) from Germany. I read this book several times. It's so wonderful. When I was 4 or 5 my sister read me the book for the first time and I think that it formed my life. It' just great. And I am just reading it again and think that I will do it again and again.