Book in: English
By: Astrid Lindgren
Original title: Känner du Pippi Långstrump? (Sweden, 1947)
Oxford University Press 2015
Pages: 32
Translated by: Elisabeth Kallick Dyssegaard
Synopsis:
The original Pippi picture book, in English. Pippi Longstocking moves into Villa Villekulla next door to Tommy and Annika — no parents, a horse on the porch, a monkey on her shoulder and a suitcase full of gold coins — and their orderly lives never quite recover. She out-lifts the strongman at the circus, sends two burglars home dancing, and throws a birthday party run entirely on her own rules. Astrid Lindgren wrote it in 1947 for readers still too young for the novels, and Ingrid Vang Nyman's flat, bold colours are the pictures that fixed Pippi's look for good. Thirty-two pages, paperback.
