The Six Bullerby Children

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
The Six Bullerby Children
All About the Bullerby Children
First edition (1947)
AuthorAstrid Lindgren
IllustratorIngrid Vang Nyman, Ilon Wikland
Cover artistIngrid Vang Nyman, Ilon Wikland
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish
Genrechildren
PublisherRabén & Sjögren
Published1947-1966

It was originally published in 1947 in Sweden. It has since been translated into 39 languages[1] and published in many countries including the United States and the United Kingdom.

The houses of Bullerby (in reality Sevedstorp), 2009

These books are about six children living in a tiny, remote village in Sweden and are set in the late 1930s, a relatively calm time in Sweden, although a war "starting soon" is sometimes briefly mentioned in newspapers the children are reading. The agricultural world is still in a pre-industrial state (no tractors or harvesters) but there are cars in the village and shops are accessible.

The narrator is a young girl named Lisa; she tells us about her life and adventures in the small and neat Swedish village Bullerby. The village consists of three lined up houses in which live seven children with their parents and housekeepers: Lisa with her older brothers Lasse and Bosse, the siblings Britta and Anna, as well as Olle with his younger sister Kerstin.

Bullerby is represented by the small village of Sevedstorp where Lindgren's father grew up (10 miles from her hometown of Vimmerby and the village of Näs, where she was born).

Films

The television series from 1960 was also re-edited into two feature films, Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn (1960) and Bara roligt i Bullerbyn (1961). The two movies by Lasse Hallström were reworked into a 7 episode TV-series, titled Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn, that was broadcast in 1989. Some scenes in the film adaptations were shot in the small hamlet Stensjö by in Småland.[2]

References
  1. "Astrid Lindgren and the world". astridlindgren.se. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  2. "Stensjö". Vitterhetsakademien. The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. Retrieved 2022-02-19. Several scenes in Astrid Lindgren's films about the Children of Noisy Village and Emil in Lönneberga were filmed in Stensjö.
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