Astrid Lindgren is truly the number one storyteller in our world. And even those who have never heard this name know her heroes very well - Carlson and the Kid (as well as the "housekeeper" Miss Bock), Pippi Longstocking, Emil from Lenneberg, Prince Mio, the robber Ronya ...
My student years coincided with the period when the works of this Swedish writer began to be actively published. There was a place to spend the scholarship. I can boast that my home library contains all the fairy tales of Astrid Lindgren, except for The Brothers Lionheart. Everything else is there. A whole fantasy world.
Even then, half a lifetime ago, Lindgren's little fairy tales became a big discovery for me. So graceful, honed, filled to the brim with miracles, light and sadness, an understanding of how difficult our life is, and a bright, charming hope that everything will be fine, without fail...
There was only one flaw in my book: there were no pictures in it. That is why now, when our son is growing up, we have a new book of fairy tales by Astrid Lindgren at our house. Large, illustrated, colorful, full of magic.
Boys and girls
What I have always liked about Lindgren's work is its versatility. If some writers created fairy tales and stories mainly for girls (remember, for example, Lydia Charskaya) or adventure stories for boys (Shklyarsky's series about Tomek), then Lindgren always maintained a balance between characters - boys and girls, adventure and romance, witchcraft - and pampering . You won't get bored!
Every young reader will surely enjoy stories about the brave Peter, who defended the Mimmi doll from the ferocious robber Fiolito and his gang, or the adventures of Göran, who famously manages a bus, tram and a large construction bucket.
And the girls will surely like the Princess Lotta the Fox with her nursery full of toys, and the little elf sewing a dress from a handkerchief, and the multi-colored pearl necklace of the Mimmi doll, and the troubles of the inventor Bertil, who equips the tiny brownie's room, turning matches into firewood, a toothbrush into a mop, and a small jelly cup into a real bath tub.
Each fairy tale is like a ready-made script for a future game. If you want, make a dollhouse or string beads for a doll, or if you want, sneak around the house with a wooden sword at dusk: isn’t there, in the dark, a formidable robber with a big mustache? Does he want to steal treasures?
Between light and darkness
It should be noted that for her stories, Astrid Lindgren has always taken our real world as a basis. She rarely created any special fairy-tale land with magical heroes. No, the action of almost all her fairy tales takes place in Sweden, in Stockholm or other cities, and her characters are completely real: ordinary people, adults and children, with their own problems, difficulties, fears, illnesses.
And it is in this ordinary, so familiar and not so iridescent world that magic creeps in. Someone's quiet steps are heard under the bed, some strange little man in a big hat is knocking on the window of the fourth floor, an old man passing by turns out to be a magician, a doll grows from a donated seed in the garden ...
Magic always begins unexpectedly, gradually, quietly.
And if you don’t scare him away, he gives a lot of joy and adventure.
You read such fairy tales and you involuntarily listen: who is there rustling under your own bed? Cat? Mouse? Or maybe a little brownie?
By the way, Lindgren's magical creatures are no different from people, and sometimes their life is also not sugar. Everyone has their own sorrows and worries, sometimes so similar to ours, human ones. Little Nils Karlsson rents a room from a rat, for a crust of cheese a month. Expensive, but what can you do!
You know how hard it is to find a small apartment.
Niels is starving and freezing, because there is a stove, but there is nothing to heat. And you don't get to eat every day...
The Flower Elf weeps bitterly because she has no dress for the ball.
Tiny Peter and Petra, from a small nation, stop going to school because they are moving to another area: “mother said that housing is better there.” And they loved to skate! But the ice rink is now too far away for them to get there...
Yes, in a fairy-tale country everything is like in people. Maybe that's why we take the concerns and needs of these fictional characters so close to our hearts: it's very easy for us to understand them!
Just like adults
Yes, and children, the main characters of Lindgren's fairy tales, grow up quite early, faced with illness, hunger, want, loneliness.
Yoran from the fairy tale "In the Land Between Light and Darkness" has been in bed for a year with a sore leg, and his parents fear that he will never be able to walk again.
Bertil's sister from the fairy tale "Little Niels Carlson" died, and he himself sits at home all day long while mom and dad work at the factory.
The parents of Britta-Kaisa from the Mirabell fairy tale cannot buy their daughter the doll she dreams of.
This is completely impossible, because all the money that dad got for vegetables went to clothes, food and other necessary things.
And little Maya from the fairy tale "The Princess Who Didn't Like to Play with Dolls", giving the princess her precious and beloved doll Baby in exchange for another, argues in an adult way wisely:
Yes, she sighed, “we must also think about Kroshka’s happiness. As wonderful as it is here, I will never have her at home.
Ordinary and miracle, reality and magic, worries and joys - everything in Lindgren's fairy tales is so closely intertwined that you involuntarily believe in them, in these little nisses, elves, wizards and robbers, talking dolls and strange little men who take children to A country that doesn't exist.
imaginary friends
I don’t think that Astrid Lindgren specifically set herself such a task, but it just so happened that almost all of her fairy tales are about lonely or sick, not very happy children and their imaginary friends. Just an exemplary illustration for an article in a psychology textbook. And if a child's view of fairy tales is obvious: "Houses and elves exist!!!", then an adult (especially a psychologist) could read all these fairy tales in a different way, soberly and skeptically.
Bertil sits all day at home alone - so he came up with a friend-brown-brown, and drags doll furniture from the closet of his dead sister and plays with dolls, talking to them as if they were alive ...
Göran is bedridden – so he invents for himself an imaginary Country That Doesn’t exist, where sore legs and the inability to walk do not matter, and where Göran fulfills all his cherished boyish dreams: he flies through the air, dances well, gorges himself on caramels, drives a tram.
Gunnar and Gunilla have been ill for four weeks now and out of boredom they come up with the idea that the wooden cuckoo in the clock is not simple, but magical: it flies on business, lays golden eggs and buys presents for children for Christmas.
Lena loses a beautiful handkerchief given to her and thinks that an elf took it for a ball gown...
Barbroo feels so abandoned and unwanted since she had a younger brother that she invents an imaginary sister who lives in a magical underworld under a rose bush:
Dad loves mom the most, and mom loves my little brother, who was born last spring, the most. And Ylva-li loves only me!
Astrid Lindgren understood children well, their feelings, desires, dreams and fears. Therefore, in her stories you rarely meet a carefree and happy child, her characters are more often thoughtful, a little sad, understanding the complexity of life... And even Princess Lisa-Lotta, who has everything and even more, she is also sad, sad doesn't want to play...
A story from the collection "There are no robbers in the forest." Publisher: magazine "Family and School". Translation from Swedish by I. Novitskaya. Illustrations by Elon Wikland. In all Lindgren's books there is a special atmosphere: fantasies, games, spiritual freedom and justice, an atmosphere that is especially desirable for children's minds and hearts. This amazing atmosphere - a kind of trademark of the writer - reigns in the works collected in the book that you are holding in your hands. These are the early and, as a rule, little known or unknown works of Astrid Lindgren, to ...
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Seeker. 1971. Issue #2 Isaac Asimov
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Tales told to children. New fairy tales by Hans Andersen
In this edition, all works from the collections Tales Told to Children and New Tales are given in classical translations carried out in the 90s of the 19th century by A.V. and P.G. Ganzen. In the "Additions" section, several unknown and little-known Andersen's fairy tales of the late 20s - mid-30s are published, translated by L.Yu. Braude. The text contains drawings by the Danish artist V. Pedersen. Concluding articles and notes by L.Yu. Braude.
Little Dorrit. Book One Charles Dickens
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Children of the Dead Elfrida Jelinek
Mixed with a group of vacationers in an Austrian boarding house, three living dead are trying to return to real life. The new novel by Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek is an expressive accompaniment to this baroque allegory - the dance of death. “I look after the dead, and everyone strokes and scratches my sweet, kind words, but the dead do not become more alive from this ...” Elfrida Jelinek considers the novel “Children of the Dead” to be her main work, because she is convinced that the ideology of fascism, its authoritarian and spiritual heritage is alive in Austria until now,…
stories; Tales; Poems in prose;… Ivan Turgenev
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Fathers and sons Ivan Turgenev
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The Amazing Journey of Niels Holgersson… Selma Lagerlöf
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Novels and stories for adult children Eduard Uspensky
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Japanese fairy tales (arranged for children by N. Hodza) Undefined Undefined
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Children of the Underground Vladimir Korolenko
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Volume 7. Works 1863-1871 Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
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Crumbs Tsakhes Elena Chizhova
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A story from the collection "There are no robbers in the forest." Publisher: magazine "Family and School". Translation from Swedish by I. Novitskaya. Illustrations by Elon Wikland. In all Lindgren's books there is a special atmosphere: fantasies, games, spiritual freedom and justice, an atmosphere that is especially desirable for children's minds and hearts. This amazing atmosphere - a kind of trademark of the writer - reigns in the works collected in the book that you are holding in your hands. These are the early and, as a rule, little known or unknown works of Astrid Lindgren, to ...
Fairy tales of imperfect time (without illustrations) Sergey Sedov
The inexhaustible storyteller Sergei Sedov and the indefatigable artist Leonid Tishkov, to the delight of fans of "Fairy Tales?" jointly created a new book - "Tales of Imperfect Time". Continuing the glorious tradition of epics about Lesha, about love, about Pipa the frog, as well as about fools and kings, Sergey Sedov popularly explains to us, his readers, what an entertaining time we happen to live, and also what and by whom this time is remarkable. The artist Leonid Tishkov depicts the features of this very time with a cascade of unique illustrations.
"Forward, Kitten!" and others ... Tales for the theater ... Andrey Zinchuk
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The Snow Queen (Illustrated) Hans Christian Andersen
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Little Ghost (Illustrated) Otfried Preusler
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Through the magic ring British Legends… Undefined Undefined
This collection introduces the reader to the treasures of the folklore of the British Isles - Irish, Welsh, Scottish and English legends and fairy tales. Translation and compilation by N.V. Shereshevskaya. Illustrations by Leah Orlova, Alena Anikst, Nadezhda Bronzova.
Tales and Legends by Rudyard Kipling
With illustrations by the author. In "Tales and Legends" the reader is presented with a paradoxical world of Kipling's fantasies that excite the imagination. Contents: Why the whale eats only small fish How a hump appeared on the back of a camel How wrinkles appeared on the skin of a rhinoceros How leopard became spotted Elephant-child The request of an old kangaroo How armadillos appeared How the first letter was written How the first alphabet was compiled Sea crab that played with the sea The cat who walked where he wanted The moth who stamped his foot
Korean folk tales
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The most beautiful fairy tales by Hans Andersen
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Tales for the little ones Samuil Marshak
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Fairy tales. Hans Andersen stories
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Albanian folk tales Author unknown - Epics, myths, legends and sayings
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The book includes fairy tales written by popular Swedish authors over a century ago, still loved by readers. The original illustrations of Sweden's chief fairy-tale artist Jon Bauer give a special charm. Thanks to the combination of the talent of storytellers and the amazing skill of the artist, these tales have gained truly worldwide fame. Scandinavian legends and stories, animated by Bauer's brush, are woven into a magical tale of mountain trolls, forest sorceresses, enchanted princesses and brave princes, creating a unique…
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This is the collection of Lindgren's books that I have gradually formed. In my opinion, Lindgren's books are a must in any children's library.
Plus an addition to the collection - "Little Nils Carlson" - a book that I have long wanted, but did not dare to buy in the AST edition, and now I bought it.
To be honest, I was held back from buying this book for some time by reviews that there were few illustrations. But, as it turned out, this is not so. Of course, the book is not replete with pictures, like the Astov edition, but the illustrations go steadily through a spread: a spread without illustrations is a spread with them. And sometimes there are several spreads with pictures in a row, but there is no such thing as 2 spreads without pictures in a row. And this makes me very happy, since these fairy tales are still for younger children than Roni or Emil.
Kostina's illustrations have become "twilight" for me - the fabulous twilight comes to life in every picture and it seems that in the evening, as soon as the sun begins to set and the lanterns are lit, real miracles happen: little Nils runs out of his mink, a Mirabell doll grows from a grain, they can knock Peter and Petra, robbers are trying to get into the dollhouse, and a wonderful country opens its arms to those who believe in it and know how to dream. I would say that this book of fairy tales is a book after which one wants to live and believe in miracles. Despite the fact that the heroes of fairy tales here are sometimes lonely ("Little Nils Carlson", sometimes sick ("In the country between Light and Darkness"), these fairy tales are full of faith in the bright, wonderful - in the world of childhood. Astrid Lindgren believes in her little readers , in their future, believes in their children's world, and this faith cannot pass without a trace.
Unlike all the Lindgren books I listed at the beginning of the post, here the heroes of fairy tales are not mischievous and pranksters, but ordinary boys and girls, mostly obedient. Well, by age, the kids-heroes will be younger, like their readers :)
The edition is excellent: hard cover, coated paper, the book format is closer to A4, such a plump little book, as I like. Smells delicious :D
A story from the collection "There are no robbers in the forest." Publisher: magazine "Family and School". Translation from Swedish by I. Novitskaya. Illustrations by Elon Wikland. In all Lindgren's books there is a special atmosphere: fantasies, games, spiritual freedom and justice, an atmosphere that is especially desirable for children's minds and hearts. This amazing atmosphere - a kind of trademark of the writer - reigns in the works collected in the book that you are holding in your hands. These are the early and, as a rule, little known or unknown works of Astrid Lindgren, to ...
The Adventures of Maya the Bee Waldemar Bonsels
About the amazing adventures of the bee Maya, funny and dangerous, about her friends who helped her in trouble, about how Maya saved her people, told the German writer Voldemar Bonsels. The artist Ruben Varshamov drew pictures for the fairy tale, in which he presented very expressive portraits of its characters. They are depicted not quite the same as in the beloved cartoon "Maya the Bee", and after reading this book, you yourself will be able to judge who was better able to convey the characters of its heroes.
Tales of Korney Chukovsky in pictures by V. Suteev Korney Chukovsky
Who does not know Moidodyr, who does not love Moidodyr? Only unclean chimney sweeps and grubby dirty ones. And whom does Moidodyr love, whom does Moidodyr praise? Of course, you and everyone who respects a washcloth and soap, who loves to splash, swim, dive, somersault! In our book, all your favorite fairy tales by K. Chukovsky, all your favorite pictures by V. Suteev for these fairy tales. Read "Moidodyr", "Aibolit", "Cockroach", "Fedorino Woe" and "Crocodile".
Fairy tales Evgeny Zamyatin
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Little Dorrit. Book One Charles Dickens
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Tales of Wilhelm Hauff
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Escape from Yulia Nabokov's fairy tale
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Tales just in case Evgeny Klyuev
Evgeny Klyuev is one of today's most extraordinary Russian-speaking writers, the author of sensational novels. But this book represents a special facet of his talent and is intended for both adults and children. Evgeny Klyuev, like Hans Christian Andersen, lives in Denmark and writes wonderful fairy tales. They are full of poetry and kindness. Their meaning is clear to the child, and subtle allegory disturbs the mature mind. All stories in this book are being published for the first time.
Glutton king. Turkmen folk tales Turkmen Tale
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Fairy tales for couples Stella Duffy
Once upon a time there was a fabulous princess in the city of London, and she hated love ... And the princess was smart, and pretty, and the court fairies did not deprive her of various virtues, in a word - perfection itself, if only ... If not for a small flaw - they forgot to invest the heart of the royal Kushle. That is why she does not tolerate couples in love. For the perfect Kushla, "eternal love is akin to a filthy myth." The princess decides to have some fun with lovers, but simply - to destroy the strongest, most reliable couples that can only be found on the streets of London. And weapons...
