“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
Tag: Astrid Lindgren
Quote From Astrid Lindgren
“Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.”
Another Quote From Astrid Lindgren
I want to write for a readership that can create miracles. Children create miracles when they read. That’s why children need books.”
photo from the Irish Times
Quote from Astrid Lindgren
You can put things in a book that only children are amused by. You can certainly also have in it things that both children and adults enjoy, but you must never put things in a children’s book that amuse only adults. That would be rude to the child – who is going to read the book.”
photo from The Local SE
25 Days – Book 6: Christmas In Noisy Village
Day 6 brings us a delightful vintage book from 1963 called Christmas in Noisy Village. It is written by the wonderful author of the Pippi Longstocking series, Astrid Lindgren; and beautifully illustrated by Ilon Wikland.
This is a story about 7 children who live in a small town of Sweden and the joys that come around the preparation and celebration of Christmas.
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Three Books a Night 