Happy Times in Noisy Village

by Astrid Lindgren, Mini Grey (Illustrator)

Overview

The kids of Noisy Village return in another rolicking adventure from the beloved author of Pippi Longstocking!

Noisy Village is a small place. With just three farmhouses and six children, it's easy to think that not much happens there. But the boisterous and adventurous children, including eight-year-old Lisa, the intrepid narrator, have loads of happy times. In this book they'll go on sleigh rides, celebrate Easter, and go on a treasure hunt!

From the beloved author Astrid Lindgren, Happy Times 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!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593694596
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	11/04/2025
Series:	Noisy Village
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.34(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

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 100 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.

Read an Excerpt

MY NAME is Lisa, and I am a girl, as I have already told you. I have two brothers, who are both
older than I am. Karl is eleven years old and Bill is ten. Soon I’ll be ten myself, but so far I’m only nine.
We live on a farm called Middle Farm, because it is between two others. The other two are called North
Farm and South Farm. Anna and Britta live at North Farm, and they are girls too. Britta is eleven and — what
luck— Anna is just my age. A boy named Olaf lives at South Farm. Between his
farm and ours is a large linden tree whose branches touch both houses at the upstairs windows. When the boys
want to visit each other, they just climb through the tree. Because there are so many children around making
noise all the time, everyone calls the three farms Noisy Village. They are in a row like this:
My picture doesn’t show our barn or the lake or the school, so you’ll just have to imagine what they look like.
Sometimes we three girls play by ourselves without the boys, and sometimes the boys play without us. But
usually we all play together, because most games are more fun when there are six instead of only three.
Olaf has a little sister named Kerstin who is still too little to play with us. She is only a year and a half old,
and I can remember when she was born. That’s the first thing I want to tell you about.

Table of Contents

Contents
11. Noisy Village
12. Olaf Gets a Baby Sister
13. Boys Just Can’t Keep a Secret
14. We Start School Again
15. Olaf Has a Loose Tooth
16. The Chest of the Wizards
17. Karl Falls into the Lake
18. We Go to School and Fool Miss Johnson
19. I Get a Baby Lamb
10. Pontus Goes to School
11. Karl Captures Musk Oxen
12. The Cherry Company
13. Anna and I Are Going to Be
Baby-Nurses—Perhaps
14. Midsummer in Noisy Village