Do you remember the wonderful book “Dad, Mom, Grandma, Eight Children and a Truck”? Well, now you have in your hands a new collection of fascinating stories about a friendly and cheerful family, in which not a minute is quiet. The Norwegian writer Anne-Katrine Westley, who came up with stories about a house where eight boys and girls grow up at once, is popular throughout Europe is probably no less than the famous Astrid Lindgren. The heroes of her books are simple, but very nice people: kind, honest, hardworking. Adults here do not lose the ability to treat themselves and each other with humor, no matter what lessons life teaches them. And most importantly, they understand their children amazingly well and maintain this understanding, no matter what they do and no matter what else they come up with.

Translation: Lyubov Gorlina