Tommy and his sister Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on her porch, and a flair for the outrageous that seems to lead to one adventure after another!
The book that I loved as a child, translated from Swedish, is now a classic. Does that show my age, too?
But really this story is ageless. As all good child protagonists, Pippi has no parents. At least not any that are in the picture. And as any child reader, I vividly remember wanting to live just like Pippi: to eat when and what I wanted. To only go to bed when I decided to. To have the freedom and the strength to make my own decisions. Pippi has even more strength than that. She can lift up her horse and do other amazing things that seem to perfectly fit the story.
Re-read this book, share it out loud with a child in your life! Re-live being a child in a book in which anything is possible.
- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Puffin; Reissue edition (April 26 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0142402494
- ISBN-13: 978-0142402498
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IBBY, the International Board of Books for Young People, administers the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award:
http://www.ibby-canada.org/?page_id=246
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