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| ON ASTRID LINDGREN'S BOOKSHELF Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883 While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain, 1884-1885 The story of Huck and his companion Jim, a runaway slave, as they travel down the Mississippi to escape from slavery and 'sivilization'. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain, 1876 The tale of a boy's life in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi River. Tom skips school and with his friends, Huck Finn and Jim, spends his days on mad adventures - some real, some imagined. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Selma Lagerlöf, 1907 Selfish and lazy, fourteen-year-old Nils learns kindness and wisdom after he is bewitched into an elf-sized boy and carried off by a barnyard goose to join the migration of wild geese across Sweden to Lapland. [Sagor] Zacharias Topelius, 1874-1852 Fairy tales by the Swedish-speaking Finn, Zacharias Topelius (1818-1898), who was inspired by Andersen but whose work was far less 'literary' in style. | BOOKS BY ASTRID LINDGREN: The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking 1945-1948 Pippi is nine years old, lives alone with a horse and a chest full of gold coins, is unexpectedly strong, and does exactly as she pleases. Her friends Tommy and Annika are green with envy – but although they have to go to school and go to bed when they're told, they still have time to join Pippi on all her adventures. | WHAT TO READ AFTER PIPPI LONGSTOCKING? BIG BABY COLLIDES WITH GROWN-UP WORLD A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole, 1980 A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, and suspicious of anything modern – this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, crusader against dunces. In revolt against the 20th century, Ignatius propels his bulk among the flesh-pots of a fallen city, documenting life on his Big Chief tablets as he goes, until his mother decrees that Ignatius must work. The Story of My Baldness Marek van der Jagt, 2000 Viennese teenager Marek, a studious type prone to dour remarks, struggles under the burdens of an overbearing mother, a distant father, and a perilously small penis. [Hedonia] Kees van Kooten, 1984 Short pieces by one of Holland's finest comedians. [Modernismen] Kees van Kooten, 1986 Short pieces by one of Holland's best comedians. HEADSTRONG CHILDREN The Tin Drum Günter Grass, 1959 "Danzig Trilogy": I A scathing dissection of the years from 1925-1955 through the eyes of Oskar, the dwarf whose manic beating on the toy of his childhood fantastically counterpoints the horrors of Germany and Poland under the Nazis. Werther Nieland Gerard Reve, 1949 Young boy suffers under the tyranny of his crazy mother and a local bully. (Included in the collection The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasy.) A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving, 1990 Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen does not believe in accidents and believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying. Zazie in the Metro Raymond Queneau, 1959 Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with Gabriel, her female-impersonator uncle. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in a comic adventure that becomes wilder and more manic by the minute. HUNH?! HOW DID HE/ SHE DO THAT? Peter Pan J.M. Barrie, 1904-1911 When Peter Pan flies through the Darling's nursery window, Wendy, Michael and John begin their amazing adventures to Never Never Land. Mary Poppins Pamela L. Travers, 1938-1952 The first in a famous series about the best-known nanny in children's literature. Mary Poppins comes to the Banks' household like a breath of fresh air (literally). Matilda Roald Dahl, 1988 Matilda is a very clever, very special little girl with stupid, awful parents who don't appreciate that their daughter is a genius. One day Miss Trunchbull, the horrible headmistress, attacks her and Matilda finds out that she has extraordinary powers to protect herself. Wiplala Annie M.G. Schmidt, 1957 [Wiplala weer] Annie M.G. Schmidt, 1962 |
| Karlson on the Roof 1945 Astrid Lindgren's tale of a lonely Swedish lad who is befriended by a tubby, propeller-clad flying character is universally revered as one of the best children's books ever written. | ||
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