Jun 30, 2024
"Cycling and swimming, watering strawberry beds, running errands for father's grocery shop, sitting by the river fishing, playing ball in Eva-Lotte's garden - not enough to fill the days. The summer holidays were so long. Yes, summer holidays were fortunately long. And they were the best invention ever, Kalle thought. It was strange to think that adults had come up with something like that. They really did let you run around in the sunshine for ten weeks without worrying about the Thirty Years' War or anything like that. Instead, you could spent your time with Wars of the Roses, and that was much nicer."
(from: Kalle Blomkvist Lives Dangerously (1951), by Astrid Lindgren)
#astrid lindgren#kalle blomquist#favourite childhood books#kalle#eva-lotte#anders#sixtus#benka#jonte#endless summer holidays#sweden#kleinköping#friendship#the names are written as in the german translation - for example I have read that Kalle was called Bill Bergson in earlier english versions#illustration#fanart#my art
