PIPPI LONGSTOCKING
Author:
Astrid Lindgren
First edition:
Pippi Langstrump, Raben-Sjorgen, Stockholm, 1945
Main illustrators:
Nyman Lavaivre Maja
In short:
With her lively eyes and her unmistakable plaits, you can easily believe that Pippi is a girl like the others. Yet she lives all alone in a big house with a pony and a monkey as her only companions. She is always ready for new extraordinary games and adventures.
Selection of edition:
Pippi Langstrump, illustrated by Ingrid Vang Nyman, Raben-Sjorgen, Stockholm, 1945
Fifi Brindacier, illustrated by Noëlle Lavaivre, Hachette, 1962.
Fifi Brindacier, illustrated by Daničl Maja, Hachette, 1995.
More about Pippi Longstocking:
Pippi Longstocking differs radically from the familiar literary tradition, which is represented in Johanna Spyri's classic Heidi series or L.M. Montgomery's stories of orphan Anne. Pippi is more related to Heinrich Hoffmann's Slovenly Peter (Der Struwwelpeter) or Wilhelm Busch's anarchistic rascals Max and Moritz.