Martina di Poggio di Giugno

Duh I am named after this book. It is perfection and I am like her

4,5 Sterne Astrid Lindgren hat so schöne Geschichten geschrieben! Auch Madita gehört dazu. Eine sehr schöne Kindheitserinnerung! Besonders die Zeit, in der diese Geschichte spielt – um 1910 – finde ich dabei sehr interessant! Sehr schöne Episoden rund um Madita, ihre Familie und die Schulzeit. Mal zu Leggi tutto

This is now the third classic Swedish children's book that I've read in German translation, and once again I find, to my considerable surprise, that Swedish stories can survive the transition to this new language intact. I read it, and I'm amazed by the translator's skill, but even more by the fact

We've read it with my daughther following Manny's advice. I never saw such response from my child. She was jumping around her room, laughing out loud, she wanted to discuss every plotline, because they all affected something inside of her. Most intersting thing is that I never saw such reaction on an Leggi tutto

This is definitely my favourite Astrid Lindgren book. It always reminds me of what my sister and I were like as kids.

Sometimes you shouldn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. The great Manny Rayner extols this book, published in Swedish in 1960 as Madicken , in both the original Swedish and its German translation. The English translation is supposed to be sub-par; however, I really enjoyed the adventures of Leggi tutto