In the Land of Twilight
I shall never forget the day Mr Lilyvale came to get me for the first time. There was a knock on the window. “My name’s Mr Lilyvale”, he said, “I’m just tiptoeing about on the window-sills to see if there are any children who might want to come along to the Land of Twilight. Perhaps you’d like to?” Of course I would!Mr Lilyvale ("Herr Liljonkvast") was a friendlier predecessor to Karlsson on the Roof. Astrid Lindgren’s daughter Karin thought up the name. The story from the Nils Karlsson-Pyssling collection is published here as a picture book with illustrations by Marit Törnqvist.Translator: Polly Lawson
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Fact
Astrid Lindgren in Germany
In 1949, the young German publisher Friedrich Oetinger was in Stockholm to meet the author Gunnar Myrdal. In a bookstore, he happened to hear about Pippi Langstrumpf. The rest is history – he requested a meeting with Astrid Lindgren and obtained a German option for the Pippi trilogy. Verlag Friedrich Oetinger in Hamburg still publishes all of Astrid Lindgren's children's books, and her great popularity in Germany remains intact. The film adaptations of her books were, in several cases, German co-productions, and they are still shown on German TV, especially around Christmas. Several of Astrid Lindgren's songs are very well known in their German translations, such as "Hey Pippi Langstrumpf!".