I've never heard of Children of Noisy Village but the title intrigues me. What's it about?
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The Children of Noise Village is about 6 children who all live out in the countryside in southern Sweden. It's unclear when exactly it takes place, but around early 1900s (in the 80s adaption, it was specifically 1928-1929 for some reason lol). It's very slice of life - just what kids in their time and place did and were up to. It's a very idyllic environment with the big acres and forests, classic swedish red houses, farm animals, kids going on adventures and picnics...
Lisa - The "main" character. She's the one telling all the stories about the kids get up to.
Lasse - Lisa's oldest brother. He's the one who always comes up with stuff to do, and he's often the cause if something chaotic happens. He's the joker of the group.
Bosse - Lisa's other brother. He either tags along on Lasse's chaos, or he is the first one to tease him when things go wrong. He's a classic middle child, either he's like "haha i'm older than you" or he's the teasing little brother.
Britta - Their neighbor. She's the most "serious" of the group, very oldest sister. She always questions things and is the most rational and reasonable.
Anna - Britta's younger sister and also Lisa's closest friend. She's very much a "little sister" (which is why she gets along with Lisa so well), and she's probably the most adventurous of the girls.
Olle - Their other neighbor. He likes animals a lot and has a much younger sister named Kerstin. He's the most sensitive of the group, but is the one to put the foot down first. Lisa also wants to marry him because he's the only boy that's not her brother
Here's some fun things they get up to:
They learn about "nÀcken" which is a scandianvian folklore creature (essentially it's a naked man playing a harmonica at a lake/river to lure children, and when they arrive he drowns them). So, Lasse decides to scare everyone by luring them into the woods and then goes to sit at a river pretending to be nÀcken.
Lisa and Anna decide to "run away", which is them sneaking out in the middle of the night, go and eat their sandwhich they brought, then they run back because the boys followed them and scared them
During christmas, they visit "Aunt Jenny" and it's unclear who's aunt it is, but all of them are invited, and they have a bunch of fun. There's also other kids there and then all of the kids sleep together on the floor. It always looked so cosy with all of them in a row.
During april fools, they all come to the school 2 hours early because they have set the clock back - this because they fooled the teacher she was late to class. They also prank each other on the way home, the most iconic fool is when Lasse fools Olle to give a seller a bag of rocks. When he comes up, the seller goes "did you say rocks?!" and this is such a meme in Sweden. Or, well, "Sa du sten?!" is what we say.
Another meme we have from this is "STĂNG DĂRR'A!!!!!!" which is, during a snow storm the kids have to stay at the shoemaker's cabin (and they're deeply afraid of him). So whenever they open the door, the shoemaker gets annoyed (since, you know, the snow blows inside) and he yells for them to CLOSE THE DOOR!! But he says it in this very specific accent that makes it sound really funny
One time Olle has a lose tooth and he's really afraid to pull it out. So Lasse, Bosse and Lisa literally break into his room at night and pulls out the tooth for him while he sleeps.
One time, the boys trick the girls that there's a treasure in the woods, and when they find it it's just a box with a note that says "haha we tricked you". So the girls, as a revenge, go and pick up goat droppings and put in it, and write a new note saying "haha nice try". They then go back to the boys going "we couldn't find the note :(" and the boys go into the woods to hide it better (only to find the box of goat poop and the girl's new note)
Lots of other things happen too! But it's a really sweet, slice of life story and I love it really much.
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