How good!

It's not Astrid Lindgren's most famous, but in my opinion it's one of the best.

Lindgren has philosophical works, parable books, sad fairy tales ("Mio, my mio", "Little Nils Karlsson", "The Brothers Lionheart").

There are very simple, straightforward stories for little ones about children from Gorlastaya Street.

But there are books full of life, mischief, and fun about the happiest, most carefree childhood, and "We Are All from Bullerby" is just that.

It's similar to everyone's favorite "Pippi" and "Emil". Only here there's a whole bunch of kids at work - 6 people, and that alone promises action! They all live in a village of three houses, there are no other children there, so these six are inseparable. Oh, no, sometimes they do get separated, because three girls must have secrets from three boys. And vice versa, of course. But basically all the games, holidays, all the work and study - together!

They even connected the windows of their rooms so that they could climb over to visit each other or send messages via rope mail.

It may seem that childhood in a tiny village is not so exciting, but every day these kids play is so full of wonderful games that you want to drop everything and go to this remote village for the holidays. They spend the night in the hayloft, look for treasure, go to the mill specifically to be afraid of the water spirit. They come up with a joint-stock company to sell the cherry harvest, save the life of a lamb and barely escape from an angry ram themselves. They also bake gingerbread pigs for Christmas, go visiting on a sleigh for New Year's, play a prank on the teacher on April Fool's Day and tell fortunes on Midsummer Day.

There is a lot of humor in this book, you will laugh heartily more than once! For example, when you read how two girls were sent to do some shopping, and they, without writing a list, made up a song on the way, in which they listed everything they needed to buy. The song ended with the words "And some cooked sausage, the most, most delicious!" Do you know how many times the girls had to go back to the store? Count them! :) And can you guess why they were so angry with that sausage?;)

And then there was the seventh child born in Bullerby - and everything connected with this little girl is also very funny. One of the boys was shocked by the baby's appearance and kept saying, "What a monster! She doesn't even look like a human being!" and then he couldn't get his head around the fact that this "poor thing" and the sweet little thing he saw a few months later at the christening were one and the same child. The girls, on the contrary, immediately fell in love with the baby and were always happy to play with her, and then one day they were asked to stay as nannies for the whole day. At first the girls were absolutely delighted, telling each other how to properly communicate with children, that you should never raise your voice at them, and especially swear at them, but the further you go, the less enthusiasm the young nannies had, and in the end they decided that teaching was not their calling.

All this is described very wittily, our reading was interrupted by laughter more than once, and now we often quote this book, which has become one of our favorites.

A few words about the edition. This is a wonderful gift option: large format, snow-white thick pages, many illustrations, some of which are done in the style of oil painting - very unusual. 200 pages of pleasure for both children and parents!