The final book in the beloved Noisy Village trilogy from Noisy Village is a small place, with just three farmhouses and six children. But in the idyllic Swedish countryside, there is still much to be entertained by, and Lisa and her five best friends have rollicking adventures. In this book they''ll play shipwrecked pirates, bring a little lamb to school, camp out under the stars, and so much more! From the beloved author Astrid Lindgren, <Nothing But Fun in Noisy Village< will delight and inspire readers of all ages. Whether familiar with Pippi Longstocking or new to the Lindgren books, readers young and old will have a blast reading about the antics of Lisa and her friends. With beautiful black-and-white illustrations from Mini Grey, good times abound in Noisy Village!

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Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) was born in Sweden. After college, she worked in a newspaper office and a Swedish publishing house. Her most famous and beloved book, Pippi Longstocking, was originally published in Swedish in 1950, and was later translated into many other languages. It was followed by two sequels, Pippi Goes on Board and Pippi in the South Seas. Ms. Lindgren had a long, prolific career, writing more than one hundred picture books, poems, short stories, plays, screenplays, and novels. In 1958, she won the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the highest international award in children's literature.

Mini Grey is the creator of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award–winning picture book Traction Man Is Here! as well as Traction Man Meets Turbo Dog and Traction Man and the Beach Odyssey. Collectively, the three Traction Man books have received fifteen starred reviews. Her brilliant, quirky humor can also be seen in Toys in Space, Three by the Sea, and Ginger.

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The final book in the beloved Noisy Village trilogy from Pippi Longstocking author Astrid Lindgren!

Noisy Village is a small place, with just three farmhouses and six children. But in the idyllic Swedish countryside, there is still much to be entertained by, and Lisa and her five best friends have rollicking adventures. In this book they'll play shipwrecked pirates, bring a little lamb to school, camp out under the stars, and so much more!

From the beloved author Astrid Lindgren, Nothing But Fun in Noisy Village will delight and inspire readers of all ages. Whether familiar with Pippi Longstocking or new to the Lindgren books, readers young and old will have a blast reading about the antics of Lisa and her friends. With beautiful black-and-white illustrations from Mini Grey, good times abound in Noisy Village!

Leseprobe
Nothing But Fun in Noisy Village
My name is Lisa and I’m nine years old and I live in Noisy Village. Mum says she thinks it’s only called Noisy Village because us Noisy Village children are so loud. You wouldn’t believe six children could make such a racket, she says. It sounds as if there are three times as many of us, at least. As for me, I think Lasse is the loudest. He makes as much noise as ten normal boys, I know that. And Bosse and Olle are not exactly quiet either. Britta and Anna and I are quiet at least some of the time.
Anyone who wants to come here to Noisy Village has to go up lots of steep hills one after the other, because Noisy Village is so high up. If it was only alittle bit higher people would be able to pull the stars down from the sky with a garden rake, says Lasse. We’ve got such a lovely view from Noisy Village because we live so high up. Although of course it’s almost only masses of forest you can see, but there are many people who think masses of forest are beautiful to look at. And they come here and look. Once a very grand lady arrived in a car, and she had a girl with her.
“We only wanted to see the view,” said the grand lady. She was wearing a red coat and a red hat and was so beautiful. Her daughter was also beautiful and she had on a light blue dress with a little red brooch. She was called Monika, the girl, and was about my age.
Mum said, wouldn’t they like to come into our garden and drink some cherry cordial. She told me I should talk to Monika. I would have liked Anna and Britta to be there to help me, but they had gone to Storby Village on an errand and weren’t at home. Lasse and Bosse and Olle were at home, but they didn’t talk to Monika. Oh no. They just stayed behind the corner of the house, being silly. Sometimes they peered round and said something, and laughed loudly at what they had said.
“Are those your brothers?” asked Monika.
“Only Lasse and Bosse,” I said. “Not Olle.”
“Which one is Olle?” asked Monika.
“He’s the one with not much hair,” I said.
But at that moment Lasse came striding past on his stilts. It was only to show off, I’m sure. Lasse’s stilts are so high that when he’s standing on them he can look in through the windows of the first floor of our house. He did that once when I was up in my room playing with my dolls. All of a sudden I saw Lasse sticking his head through the window. He lifted his hat and said:
“Good day, madam, and how are you this fine afternoon?”
I was very scared at first, but then I ran to the window, and that’s when I saw Lasse walking on his stilts. It was the first time he had tried them.
But now he was showing off for Monika. He strode around on his stilts in our garden and shouted to Bosse and Olle:
“You get a very good view from up here!”
Agda, who helps Mum, was about to go and feed the pigs. She had stood the bucket with the food leftovers outside the kitchen door. And of course, Lasse had to blunder about and fall off right there! He tipped every­thing out of the bucket and then landed right in the middle of the pig food.
“Now we’ve got a very good view too,” said Bosse, and laughed and slapped his knees. Monika laughed as well. Lasse took himself off to the outhouse and stood under a tap to get clean. Then he came back soaking wet but just as cocky as before. He wrung thewater out of his hair, looked at Monika, and said:
“The things you do to make people laugh!”
Mum had him go indoors and put on dry clothes, but he was quickly back out again. And then the boys also talked to Monika. Well, not Olle, of course, because he just won’t talk to people he doesn’t know. But then all of a sudden he said to Monika:
“Do you want to see my little sister?”
And then he ran home to his house and fetched Kerstin. Kerstin is only one and a half. Olle loves her so much. And that’s not surprising because Kerstin is so sweet and Olle doesn’t have any other brothers or sisters. Olle put her on Monika’s lap and Kerstin yanked Monika’s hair so hard that a small handful came out. But still, that didn’t make Monika cross. I expect she knew that little children always do that.
I stood looking at Monika’s brooch. And then I said:
“What a lovely brooch you’ve got.”
“Do you want it?” asked Monika.
But I didn’t—I mean, that wasn’t why I said it was a lovely brooch.
But Monika took off the brooch and put it in my hand. And her mother said I should have it too. Even thoughmy mother said:
“No, that won’t do at all . . . !”
But I did get the brooch, and it was full of small red jewels, and it was the most beautiful brooch I had ever seen. It’s mine now. I keep it in a box in my chest of drawers.
After a little while Britta and Anna came home from Storby Village, and when they caught sight of the car on the road, their eyes popped wide open. Cars hardly ever come to Noisy Village because this is where the road ends, and anyhow it’s so narrow and tw…