Big sister, little brother
Big sister, little brother ( Swedish Stora syster och lille bror ) is a story by Astrid Lindgren .
action
A girl wants to tell a fairy tale to her little brother. The fairy tale is about a prince who is on his way to get a magic apple for the sick king. However, the little brother always upsets his sister with his questions. He does all sorts of nonsense, like throwing the hanging lamp around, sticking his index finger into the wall clock to see if it stops, or enlarging the hole in his stockings. When the little brother then also gives his own version of the fairy tale and deliberately confuses everything, the sister gives up in exasperation. She explains to her brother that she will never tell him a fairy tale again. The brother then asks if he can really rely on it.
background
In Sweden, the story was first published in 1950 in the short story collection Kajsa Kava (1952, German Sammelaugust and other children ).
Manfred Steffen read the story out as an audio book. This reading was broadcast on the radio and released on CD under the title Stories .
Published in Germany in
- Collective August and other children, 1952, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
- Astrid Lindgren tells, 1971, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
- Stories, 1990, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
- The Mirabell Doll and Other Stories, 2006, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
- Stories and fairy tales, 2007, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
- The reading book for strong little boys, 2011, Thienemann in Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag GmbH, illustrated by Dirk Hennig
reception
According to the Bavarian Reading Forum , the book is suitable for both boys and girls. It describes how “a sober boy without illusions spoils his older sister's telling of a fairy tale. As thievingly one is happy about the rubbed little one, the unfortunate sister offers herself as an object of compassion. ”Annegret Katz, however, finds that the“ precocious quick-wittedness of the boy is more naughty than funny ”.
Birgit Schrowange and Markus Lanz presented the story in 2007 in the book Our Favorite Stories from cbj Children's Books Publishers .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Collective August and other children. .
- ↑ Astrid Lindgren: "You can still read the Odyssey". . Archived from the original on April 1, 2019.
- ↑ Ballet School. Fairytale for the anniversary. .
- ↑ Library and Information, Volume 5, Issues 7–12. Association of Librarians at Public Libraries. Verlag Documentation, 1953. p. 1372
- ↑ Our favorite stories. .