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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Pippi moves into in a house at the edge of a Swedish village with a horse, a monkey, a suitcase full of gold, and no grown-ups to tell her what to do. She has upside-down braids and is wild and funny and her crazy ideas have a way of making anything exciting! Naturally, the children next door, Tommy and Annika are curious about their new neighbor. The three children have the most rollicking adventures on their own, with horses and monkeys, the circus,...
Author
Series
Pippi Longstocking volume 2
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Pippi Longstocking has no parents around and no rules to follow. She's been treating her friends Tommy and Annika to wild adventures, too, like buying and eating seventy-two pounds of candy, or sailing off to an island in the middle of a lake to see what it's like to be shipwrecked. But then Pippi's long lost father returns, and she might have to leave Villa Villekulla.
Author
Series
Pippi Longstocking volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A collection of three previously published books: Pippi Longstocking ©1950, Pippi goes on board ©1957, and Pippi in the South Seas ©1959.
Author
Series
Pippi Longstocking comics volume 1
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Pippi Longstocking, an adventurous young redhead, moves in next door to Tommy and Annika in a small Swedish village and nothing is the same from there on. She has a horse, a monkey named Mr. Nilsson, and no parents.
Author
Series
Pippi Longstocking comics volume 2
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of Pippi Longstocking.
Author
Series
Pippi Longstocking comics volume 3
Publisher
Enfant, an imprint of Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Pippi takes on school quizzes, refuses to be evicted from her home, and brings Tommy and Annica to visit the island her father lives on.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001, c1988
Language
English
Description
While Pippi is sailing with her sea captain father, she is suddenly washed overboard and lost in a fierce storm. Pippi eventually drifts ashore to a small coastal town where she sets up house in an ancient vacated mansion. There, with her horse and monkey, Pippi begins a new life without any adult supervision.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The first English-language biography of Astrid Lindgren provides a moving and revealing portrait of the beloved Scandinavian literary icon whose adventures of Pippi Longstocking have influenced generations of young readers all over the world. Lindgren's sometimes turbulent life as an unwed teenage mother, outspoken advocate for the rights of women and children, and celebrated editor and author is chronicled in fascinating detail by Jens Andersen,...
13) Astrid Lindgren
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In this book from the critically acclaimed, mulitmillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover how Astrid Lindgren grew up to become one of the world s best-loved authors, and the creator of the irresistible Pippi Longstocking. Little Astrid grew up on an old farm in Sweden. Her childhood was very happy, so happy that she never wanted to grow up. When she was four, her friend Edit read Astrid her first story. Suddenly, the...
14) Becoming Astrid
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Swedish
Description
Teenaged Astrid Lindgren, future author of Pippi Longstocking, leads a carefree life in rural Sweden. Eager to break free from her conservative upbringing, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor. After Astrid becomes pregnant, she leaves home to give birth to a son, whom she reluctantly leaves with a foster mother. When the foster mother falls ill, Astrid uses her imagination and gift...
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