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Meet Pippi Longstocking

Author(s): Astrid Lindgren, Ingrid Nyman

Children's classics

When Pippi Longstocking moves in next door to Tommy and Annika they are completely amazed by their new playmate. Pippi is cheeky, courageous and completely unpredictable. She lives alone with a monkey, a horse, and no rules whatsoever! Everything is fun with Pippi around!


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Celebrating 75 years of everyone's favourite quirky heroine!

Astrid Lindgren was born in 1907, and grew up at a farm called NAs in the south of Sweden. She began her writing career in 1944 after she won a children's book competition, with Pippi Longstocking published a year later. She published more than one hundred books in her lifetime and is still the most popular children's author in Sweden. Her books have been translated into more than sixty languages, and she received numerous honours and awards. Astrid Lindgren died in 2002. Ingrid Nyman (1916-1959) was a Danish illustrator, noted for her work on the Pippi Longstocking books of which she was the original illustrator.

General Fields

  • : 9780192772428
  • : Oxford University Press
  • : Oxford University Press
  • : 0.16
  • : February 2020
  • : .572 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 18.5 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Astrid Lindgren, Ingrid Nyman
  • : Paperback
  • : Ingrid Nyman
  • : English
  • : 839.7374
  • : 80