Astrid Lindgren Karlsson On The Roof

In russia karlsson on the roof is the most popular character of them all.

Astrid lindgren karlsson on the roof.

This book is hilarious. Karlsson on the roof according to karlsson he is a handsome thoroughly clever and suitably portly man in his prime. My sons appreciate this book because the protagonist smidge is a seven year old boy my daughters also enjoyed this story. It is even funnier than pippi longstocking also written by astrid lindgren.

A friend recommended we read karlson on the roof based on our love of pippi and we haven t been disappointed. With his irreverent attitude toward the establishment he probably had a very important function to fill in the former soviet union. Today she is most remembered for writing the pippi longstocking books as well as the karlsson on the roof book series. With the propeller on his back he flies around over vasastan in stockholm and lands in his own messy little house on the roof of an ordinary block of flats where the very ordinary lillebror lives with his very ordinary family.

Karlsson på taket is a character who figures in a series of children s books by the swedish author astrid lindgren a cartoon adaptation of the series became popular in the soviet union when it was released in the 1970s. It was a place where astrid became more than anybody else did the people s author. Hans christian a astrid anna emilia lindgren née ericsson 1907 2002 was a swedish children s book author and screenwriter whose many titles were translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100.