The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

She remembers: ‘I discovered Pippi when I was about eight years old andfound her completely inspiring.’ Known and loved as the creator of some equally feisty little girls – notably Clarice Bean and Lola – Lauren has brought her own inimitable style to this beautifully-illustrated edition of Pippi Longstocking. Outside stands a tree that grows Sockerdricka, a soft drink sold in Sweden.

She lives there with her horse and monkey, Mr. Astrid once commented, ‘I write to amuse the child within me, and can only hope that other children may have some fun that way, too.’ When she was growing up, Lauren Child loved Astrid Lindgren’s books. View history Tools Villa Villekulla is a fictional house that is the home of Pippi Longstocking, a character in a series of books. Astrid Lindgren’s children’s classic first appeared in 1945. She published more than one hundred books in her lifetime and is still the most popular children's author in Sweden. Her first book was published in 1944, followed a year later by Pippi Longstocking. Just like Tommy and Annika, readers are instantly charmed by her warmth and sense of fun. Astrid Lindgren was born in 1907, and grew up on a farm in the south of Sweden. Pippi thinks nothing of wrestling a circus strongman, dancing a polka with burglars, or tugging a bull’s tail.Generations of children have fallen in love with Pippi Longstocking. The grown-ups in the village try to make Pippi behave in ways that they think a little girl should, but Pippi has other ideas! She would much rather spend her days arranging wild, exciting adventures to enjoy with her neighbours, Tommy and Annika, or entertaining everyone she meets with heroutrageous stories. She has just moved into Villa Villekulla where she lives all by herself with a horse, a monkey, and a big suitcase full of gold coins. The next year, 1945, Pippi Longstocking won a best childrens book competition and Lindgren began writing the perennially child-pleasing stories that make up her enormous body of work, some of.

The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren