The Six Bullerby Children
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Books by Astrid Lindgren featuring the Six Bullerby Children (In the US released as The Children of Noisy Village):
- All About the Bullerby Children
- Cherry Time at Bullerby
- Six Bullerby Children
- Springtime at Bullerby
These books are about six children living in a tiny, remote village in Sweden. They were made into a TV series.
The story-teller is a little girl named Lisa; she tells us about her life and adventures in the small and neat Swedish village Bullerby (Bullerbyn in Swedish). The village consists of three lined up houses where live seven children with their parents and housekeepers: Lisa with her older brothers Lasse and Bosse, the siblings Britta and Anna, as well as Ole with his little sister Kerstin. Astrid Lindgren not only depicts a village with a special charm, but she also creates a perfect children's world; it touches the reader especially by its simplicity which holds the deep wisdom of true human values and a great amount of fine humour. It would be very desirable that today's children, raised in a materially lavish, yet often cynic and nihilist turn of Western culture get to know a better world where love, self-sacrifice and friendship stand above gain and egotism.
Bullerbyn is identical with a part of a Swedish area known as Sevedstorp (not far from Vimmerby in the district of Näs -- the birthplace of Astrid Lindgren). Even today the three houses that set up the stage for the story do stand in Sevedstorp where Astrid Lindgren's family moved shortly after her birth.
Ultimately, the young protagonist of this story represents the child in general; she feels, experiences and is all that children constantly are in their fantasies - a hero of ever more adventures!
