Mardie
In the big red house, down by the river lives Mardie. Her mummy and daddy live there too and her little sister Lisbet and a black poodle called Sasso and a kitten called Goodie. Mardie’s real name is Margaret, but she only gets called that when she needs to be reprimanded. And that’s quite often, actually, because she’s got a whole lot of preposterous ideas and never thinks before she does things. Not until afterwards …The model for Mardie ("Madicken" in Swedish) was Astrid Lindgren’s childhood friend Anne-Marie Fries, whose nickname was Madicken.Translator: Patricia Crampton
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