Lotta!

[ailbhe]

Inspired by rivka's post, I offered to read to Linnea this evening - usually it's a thing for Her And Daddy, but we've got the impression lately she'd like me to do it - and she chose Astrid Lindgren's Lotta. I read 60 pages before I ran out of voice.

She really enjoyed it. So did I. I can't wait to read the rest. We're about to do the story where Lotta hangs pancakes out of the tree, and then eats green leaves and jam.

Lotta is four, and has always been one of my favourite little girls. She plants herself in manure, one rainy day, to make herself grow. She pretends to be a little tiny lamb pretending to be a little girl. She has dreams that seem so real, she leaves home. FOREVER. That'll teach those nasty people. Her older siblings are lovely and manipulative by turns.

I love Lotta. I always preferred her to Pippi, though far more exciting things happen to Pippi. Lotta is so real.

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[liasbluestone.livejournal.com]

The Bedtime Story was always my area too. K* was particularly fond of Jane Hissey.

There was one camping weekend in Devon when we forgot to take a book (!), so I recited "Jolly Tall" from memory. Next morning the people in the next tent told me how much they'd enjoyed it...

[mrs-warwick.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've read Lotta. I remember Pippi, but I can't say I was a fan. We shall have to look out for her.

[(Anonymous)]

Love Lotta too :) And Emil (as in, in the soup tureen, not with the detectives, though love that one too). First chapter books here included lots of Roald Dahl, I think. Buttercup just had to learn to sit through older kids' stuff, so her first chapter book was probably LWTW&TW. I might read her Lotta in private :) We started The Subtle Knife a few weeks ago, but seem to have not been in together much since!

[ailbhe]

Rob had Emil but not Lotta; we had Kastner's Emil but not Lindgren's. Linnea spent the rest of the evening looking at the pictures of the ones I hadn't read today and telling me the stories; she remembers them quite well.

I'm not convinced Linnea is ready for The Subtle Knife, somehow.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

Must read! Thanks.

[velcro-kitten.livejournal.com]

Lotta rings a bell (esp the manure). We've just finished Comet in Moominland, which is lovely and has loads of adventures (tho the Snork Maiden probably isn't the most positive female role model around... but she does save Moomintroll from a giant Octopus)

[gingieellis.livejournal.com]

My two like anything by Roald Dahl. At the moment we are all enjoying the Twits!