Help me find this book

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This is going to be pretty vague.

1. I read the book in the 1980s
2. it was set in a multi-generational farming family in a bucolic “Sound of Music” like setting somewhere in Europe.
3. It might have been set anywhere between 1900 to the 1960s.
4. my impression was that the book was translated into English. This might be wrong
5. Almost nothing happened in the book. It was the day to day workings of a idyllic farming family
6. the only specific event that I recall that did take place in the book was a toddler going missing towards the end of the book. There were a few frantic pages until toddler was found asleep in a laundry basket. Or a haystack or something like that. That was the only tense thing in the book.

I loved this book and think of it all the time, even through all I recall is the gentle narrative where nothing much happened. It was so far from my usual type of books which where full of action and adventure.

So not much to go on, I know! And even if someone identifies it, I may not recognise it!

Is it Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Wilder? Hope you rediscover it!

Sounds a bit like one of the 'Children of Noisy Village' books by Astrid Lindgren.

That would be my thought too.

Set in England, so may not be it, but The Family at One End Street?

I don’t think it’s any of these. I had a really good look at Children of Noisy Village which was the most likely but I don’t think it is that. Thank-you though.

I was wondering if it was one of the Bullerby Children books?

Darling buds of May?

Was it Lotta? Also by Astrid Lindgren as mentioned above. I definitely had this and the toddler in the laundry basket sounds familiar!

Lotta (Young Puffin Books) https://amzn.eu/d/c5utPEx

Could be Mardie by Astrid Lindgren. It definitely sounds like one of hers.

I’ve just looked through Mardie and it doesn’t seem to quite fit, though at one point, rather alarmingly, she puts her little sister Lisbet down a (dry) well, because Lisbet has eaten the head off Mardie’s chocolate baby.

I don’t think it’s any of these. Astrid Lingren would fit with my thought that it was translated into English. I’ve got so little to go it. It definitely wasn’t focused on the adventures of one main child though. I have a feeling the name was something along the line of “The Family at Buttercup Farm” It’s not that of course!

The fearless little farmboy is an Astrid Lindgren picture book where a little boy is lost and found under a haystack. I don't recall the village life, as it was more of a picture book. Might you be mixing up two novels? Seacrow Island/noisy village books?