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An amazing story, imbued with warmth. Heartwarming, real, funny and sad. It tells about the adventures and pranks of two best friends - the boy Trille and the girl Lena, living in a seaside town in Norway. These mischievous and mischievous tomboys are constantly trying to diversify the quiet rhythm of life of local citizens, doing unimaginable things and getting into all sorts of troubles.

The main characters create a contrast with each other - Trille’s poise and prudence are in harmony with Lena’s recklessness and fearlessness. He treats her with great love and care, but she doesn’t seem to understand his strong and true feelings, showing with all her appearance that she is indifferent to him.

Yes, these kids definitely have something bigger in their future.

I also really liked the positive, optimistic and obnoxious grandfather, who was able to both cheer up and console and provide moral support in difficult times. And, of course, the kindest Baba Aunt with her talent for baking absolutely delicious waffles.

I recommend reading this wonderful book from an early age until old age, because it will touch the heart of every person. It's about what friendship should be like and about childhood, which no one would refuse! About first confessions and losses, about a child’s pain when parting with loved ones. You can read it with your family, preferably out loud and sitting comfortably by the fireplace.

The work is maximally adapted to the needs of a young reader - small chapters, simple language, vivid comparisons that are understandable even for a child. The publication is presented in a convenient format, with high-quality printing and interesting illustrations.

A wonderful debut from the writer whom many critics unanimously call the new Astrid Lindgren.

Behind childhood through the pages

When was the last time you wanted to return to childhood, with endless fields and the eternal sun, which even the rain cannot eclipse, because it is inside you, among the smiles of friends and small pranks?

Maria Par gave this opportunity to the whole world by telling the story of the waffle heart. Only her childhood is not quite the same as ours, lonely in Norwegian, as if for many miles around you there are only mountains and no one...
Well, how about no one? Of course, there are parents, grandparents, neighbors, among whom is a beloved friend, but somewhere there, deep inside, you feel an inexplicable emptiness that cannot be expressed in words. It seems like every child has experienced this. Loneliness through laughter.

The book describes a very real life, in which there is laughter, tears, small troubles and big miracles. It is difficult to determine the age of potential readers - too deep for children, too superficial for adults. I think this book is worth reading together, between chapters having time to tell the younger generation about how you spent the long summer days.

Children's pranks

The Norwegian writer Maria Parr told me an amazing story of the adventures of nine-year-old children in the town of Shchepki-Matilda. The main characters of the work are Trille (aka Theobald Rodrik Danielsen Uttergaard) and Lena Lied. They live next door, so they spend all their days together.
When you read a book, you recognize yourself, so adults can also read it to return to a carefree childhood. In general, the book is more suitable for reading in elementary school. The simple language of the Norwegian writer will captivate you with the story of the adventures of restless children. After all, at the age of nine, no one can sit still.
I read the work in a day. A plus is the presence of illustrations, which are also available in the e-book.
In addition to the two main characters, I really liked Grandfather Trille, without whom not a single story could have happened. Also among the characters, a special place is occupied by Baba Aunt, who bakes excellent waffles, the recipe for which you will find on the cover of the book)
In addition to mischief, the book also presents the tragic events that our restless heroes will encounter. But life does not stand still, we must move on, which adults should remember too...
The book will definitely be interesting to children. The writer approached this work not without humor, so sometimes it was impossible to read without smiling.
In the work you will find the daily adventures of a mischievous girl and a cheerful boy. This includes a cable car, and sledding, and a search for a father for Lenin’s mother, and a rescue of a horse, and delicious, delicious waffles (the smell of which I felt as I read), and much, much more.
The children's phrase characterizes the work well: “Parents always know in their gut when you’ve done something wrong.”
Of course, children will be more impressed by what they read, but I still give it 5, because I think that as a child I would have liked this story even more.
It’s good that there are such children’s writers, it’s probably not for nothing that M. Parr is compared to A. Lindgren. There is something similar to “Pippi Longstocking”, for example, the age of the characters and, of course, I associated Lena’s character with Pippi: courage, restlessness, gaiety.
I don’t regret reading “Waffle Heart”, it reminded me of childhood pranks and books about adventures that I loved so much as a child)
Read under item No. 10 of the Book Marathon “children's book that has not been read.”

“Waffle Heart”, written by Norwegian writer Maria Parr, is a simple story about the life of a small village, the joys and sorrows of two bosom friends - a ten-year-old boy and a girl.

The book was published in Norway in 2005 and was very warmly received by critics, who called Parr “the new Astrid Lingren”, received several awards and was nominated for the Braga Prize. Olga Drobot, a well-known specialist in Scandinavian literature, translated the works of Maria Parr into Russian. She awarded “Waffle Heart” the “Translator’s Favorite Book” sign, which she created specifically for the Samokat publishing house.

What is the secret of this work? What made a seemingly ordinary children's book create such a sensation? It seems that one of the basic rules of literature and life in general worked here: the main thing is revealed in simplicity. Easy and simple language, kind and real characters, a calm and consistent manner of narration - all this creates a warm and cozy atmosphere, as if immersing the reader himself in the quiet bay of Sliver-Matilda.

The questions raised in the work were once asked by everyone, especially in childhood. What is friendship? How to understand whether your feelings for another person are mutual? Why do you need close people at all? Why is it necessary to understand and support them? And what happens if you lose them? And if someone loses you, what will happen? But if you think about it, we still haven’t found answers to some of these questions... So, perhaps, this book should be recommended to be read not only by children, but also by adults.

The plot of the work is also quite simple. This is a chain of short stories about the life and adventures of two children: nine-year-old Trill, who serves as the narrator, and his best friend, classmate Lena. It’s amazing to realize that the events that Trille tells us about happened in just one year - they seem so vivid to the reader. With each new story, new conflicts are revealed to us, which are expressed, rather, not through the clashes of the heroes, but through their inner experiences. This is a tossing between compliance with prohibitions and an unbridled thirst for freedom, social restrictions and one’s own feelings, one’s desires and concern for others.
Trille and Lena think, do, make mistakes, but in the end they always find the right path and make the right choice, albeit not without outside help. In general, these guys are so different that it’s amazing how they managed to become such strong friends and even get along together. A crazy girl, a generator of crazy ideas, and a calm, slightly melancholic boy set up an ark on his uncle’s boat, look for sheep in the mountains, ride in a box on his grandfather’s moped and on a sled down a huge mountain, and all this together.

The amazing atmosphere is achieved not only through the description of all these extravagant events, but also through the use of language. “I just felt how, while I was looking through the branches at our bay, summer was disappearing from me,” “missing someone is the most beautiful of all sad feelings” - so simple, honest and sincere... It would seem, Maria Parr does not use any special techniques that immediately catch the eye when reading the text, but it amazes with its beauty and penetration. Some details sink into the reader's soul and are remembered for a long time - the cozy sofa of the woman-aunt, her waffles, better than which there is nothing in the world... S. Kasyan's laconic illustrations become not even a pleasant addition to the text, but an important component of it - they seem to capture a feeling .

All this adds up to an amazing picture that takes the reader back to childhood, to the world of goodness and endless love, where it is so important for every person to return from time to time. “Waffle Heart” seems to put everything in its place, and puts sincerity and cordiality in the first place. Therefore, this work is not only for children, it is for anyone and everyone who wants to understand what is truly significant.

You can read this book and many other interesting works at http://online-knigi.com. It is quite difficult to find it in printed form. Unless you order it from an online bookstore.

Bookcase - this is "Waffle Heart" - the debut of the young Norwegian writer Maria Parr, whom critics unanimously call the new Astrid Lindgren.

Waffle Heart is not actually a book. This is a ticket to childhood. It's a fresh wind in your face when you rush down the mountain at full speed towards adventure. It's the sweet smell of grandma's baking. It's the spirit of carefree silliness. This is that indescribable thing when you read, and it seems that you are nine again and you are open to the whole world, and of course you have the best friend in the world, with whom everything is possible.
You can build an observatory hut on a tree, and every evening you can look at the stars from there through your grandfather’s binoculars. A whole week of glueing a huge drum to play in the Field of Miracles, and then shouting “This is a wheel!” bring him down the mountain in a second. Cross the ice to an uninhabited island in the middle of the river, carrying provisions with you on a sled. We agreed to give mothers two rabbits for the New Year. Slide down the sand dunes at the river port on the door of an old refrigerator or fly hands-free on a bicycle along a thin board thrown over a ditch. Secretly keep a hedgehog for two houses, and release it in the spring. Send a pirate treasure map to your friends by mail and bury a real treasure in place X - a collection of Turbo candy wrappers. Distribute tickets to the concert in the first entrance to the entire yard, young and old, and recite “Son of the Regiment” by heart...
But all this is not in the book. This is all in my own childhood, which covers your head as soon as you turn the last page.

What is there? There is a boy, Trille, and his classmate Lena, who live in Shchepki-Matilda Bay, “where there are huge fields between the houses and the sea.” They are nine years old and are best friends. Trille is a kind, loyal and reliable guy, but his knees are constantly shaking. And Lena Lid is a lively, restless and hooligan girl who can’t sit still. Together they build a cable car between houses, herd animals onto a boat, like Noah did in his time, write an ad “let’s take dad into good hands,” go to work to buy a new ball and “become pop stars,” bury them in the ground from “ fascists" with all the radio equipment in the house, they open a "house for elderly horses", they sneak waffles through the open window, hanging them on a hook and much more, even worse. Not the least role in the pranks is played by the “best adult in the world” - the adventurer grandfather.

And yet the story is not about funny adventures. More precisely, not only about them. It is about creativity and imagination, true friendship and the value of family, bitter partings and irreversible losses, unnecessary old age and childhood vulnerability, care and the ability to empathize and love. Serious things are written simply, sincerely and directly. That’s why the book is so kind, touching, funny and sad, and also very sincere, permeated with childhood, like sunlight, and therefore close to everyone.

“Waffle Heart” is much more than Baba Aunt’s recipe for waffles, which, by the way, disappear incredibly quickly from plates.

How to make "Waffle Heart"?
Recipe: 1 tbsp. flour, 3 eggs, 150-200 g margarine, 1 tbsp. sugar, 1 tbsp milk.
Beat eggs with sugar, add melted margarine, milk, and lastly flour. Mix well. You should get a homogeneous mass without lumps. Bake the waffles for 2-3 minutes until they are golden brown.

Have a nice reading...

The quality of the publication is excellent - a convenient slightly smaller (travel) format, hard cover, snow-white offset pages, clear font. I can’t evaluate Olga Drobot’s translation, since there are no alternatives, and the original language is beyond my control, and I stumbled in places in the text. Black and white illustrations by Sofia Kasyan very harmoniously complement the text. And on the cover the sea splashes...

In my childhood there was no Internet, computer games, phones and tablets, so books were my best friends. I read a lot, with pleasure, and my imagination worked just fine. Mom never stopped buying me new books, and in addition, I borrowed them from the school library.

Nowadays children hardly read, they read poorly and, it seems to me, they are becoming primitive creatures who do not need to store anything in their memory at all. You just need to say “Okay Google” or “Listen Yandex” to instantly get an answer to any question.

I really want my son to grow up in a slightly different atmosphere, and for his brain, imagination and creativity to work to the maximum. Therefore, I do everything to make the child love books and reading. And of course, for this, I very carefully select literature for children's reading. As for our Russian authors, everything is simple here - there are a lot of masterpieces worthy of attention, the main thing is to find time to read them all. But there are many questions about foreign literature, because now Europe lives according to completely new canons. Of the latest books that I consider suitable for children's reading, I can highlight “Waffle Heart”.

Childhood for many is the best time in life. We don’t have a penny of money in our pockets, but we are happy because we can always find food for ourselves literally on the street, make entertainment and play with what’s lying under our feet. And friends in childhood are the most faithful and friendship is the strongest. Do you want to immerse yourself in those times when you were happy simply because the sky was blue and the sun was shining outside? Read with your child, or just for yourself, Waffle Heart.

The main characters of the book are a couple of bosom friends, a girl and a boy: Lena and Trilly. They are having fun and doing mischief. The friends are only nine years old, they study in the same class, where Lena is the only girl. Trilly considers Lena her best friend and, of course, loves her deep down in her heart. While Lena herself remains colder and does not show strong feelings and emotions towards Trilly. But this is probably normal, because it often happens that one person loves, and the other allows himself to be loved.

The characters in the book are very kind, they teach us that life is good, even if it is sometimes difficult. The main thing is love and support for each other.

"Waffle Heart" does not have a clearly structured storyline. Here there is only a collection of different stories and events from the lives of friends. The characters are written in quite detail. I personally am very impressed by Trilly, the grandmother-aunt - a sweet granny who bakes waffles for the children and a slightly strange, but very interesting grandfather.

I bought a book from the Samokat publishing house, a very high-quality publication, it’s pleasant to hold in your hands and comfortable to read. The illustrations are black and white, a little specific, I would say made without a soul, but alas, this is the artist’s intention. Due to the large font, the book is easy to read for children and the elderly. In general, “Waffle Heart” is best read with the whole family, and then discussed. Reading together brings people closer together and gives a lot of positive emotions.

While reading “Waffle Heart,” I simply rested my soul, was charged with positive emotions, and with a blissful smile I recalled childhood picnics with girlfriends on a blanket, feuds with boys, the theft of cherries from a neighbor’s dacha. It was a good time, but it's gone.

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Maria Parr's book Waffle heart“is no less good - in the same way as “Tonya”: glorifying real life, close to nature, describing our contemporaries who still do not “hang out” on the Internet, but lead a simple and healthy, “village” lifestyle, unobtrusive humor ( and the description of dung rain did not offend me at all, unlike many adults whose reviews I read before purchasing the book myself) and, finally, the fact that this book is not an empty description of childhood adventures and traumas (here, by the way, with concussions are still too much, in my opinion), but a quiet, heartfelt conversation about life and death, love and happiness.

And how nice it is that the book shows children’s faith in a completely harmonious and natural way - this is so rare now. And if it does occur, it is somewhat deliberately, intrusively. Here, faith is the real state of a person, something that helps in difficult situations, supports and leads to some new stages of growing up. In general, the difficult process of a child’s growth - not physical, but specifically the growth of the soul - is so clearly visible here that even the style of the book becomes more restrained and serious towards the end of the story.

“I received an inheritance. I was allowed to take one thing from my aunt’s house that would be mine only. - Could you choose any thing? - Lena clarified. I nodded. - And what did you choose? Sofa? - I chose Jesus. It hangs above my bed. And I don’t have to be afraid.”

And a lot more good things could be said about the main character, the boy Trill, and his girlfriend Lena, whose lives are simply filled with adventures, but at the same time, miraculously, they still have time to go to their old grandmother and tell each other about the picture with Christ , comfort your grandfather and talk about the most important things with each other - not in many words, but maybe many words are not needed if there is love and understanding and loyalty? “If someone is sad because he misses someone, it means he loves that someone. And loving someone is the most beautiful feeling in the world. Those without whom we feel bad are here! - and he hit himself forcefully on the chest. “Oh,” I sighed and wiped my eyes with my sleeve. “Grandfather, but you can’t play with whoever you have here,” and I also hit my chest and sighed.”

After the first reading, it seemed “less than ideal” to me that the dominant character of the main character creates her obvious superiority over the boy narrator. For some reason, the author did not allow him to distinguish himself even in the fire, when, it would seem, he showed himself to be a real hero. Lena appears there at the last moment and again takes the initiative. In fact, based on Trille’s gentle character and his subtle mental organization, this is even harmonious. I understand very well that the author, being talented and honest, simply painted the picture that is developing before her eyes. But I wanted, for “pedagogical” purposes, and also for professional reasons, to give the boy a chance to feel like a hero and a man. By the way, my eight-year-old daughter also noted: “Why is this boy so girlish?” No, I understand that everything happens in life. And my eldest daughter was at one time the leader of a “gang” of her three brothers, but...

But over time, I felt that in today’s world this is a true reflection of reality. Today the boy is allowed to be subtle and sensitive, understanding and attentive. At the same time, he can distinguish himself in a fire if the girl does not get ahead of him. By the way, everything agrees here too: women’s reactions are faster. While a man thinks with his mind, a woman soon feels with her heart.

“When he finished, I burst into tears. I cried until I hiccupped. I cried about the fact that Lena didn’t have a dad, and that my grandmother died, and that my best friend left without even saying goodbye. - I'll never get out of bed again! It’s okay, he will bring me food straight to bed, dad promised, and I can calmly lie here until confirmation. I started crying even more. It turned out to be some kind of nightmare life. - Will I never, never be happy again? - I asked.”

It turns out that this book is also about modern masculinity, which still does not involve rudeness or aggression. It takes special courage to remain yourself in difficult situations.

Be yourself and understand others - this is what Maria Parr’s books teach.