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ASTRID LINDGREN'S WORLD
70 Years Later, The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking Live On
| BY SHARON WHITLEY LARSEN |
Photo courtesy of Vimmerby Tourist office
A nyone with the name "Pippi defies convention, to put it mildly, has
red pigtails that stick straight out, wears
Longstocking" has to be an
interesting character!
a dress she made (that looks like it),
and black shoes twice as long as her feet.
"With such an unusual name, she became sports one brown stocking, one black,
an unusual girl," noted the late Swedish And she's strong as a horse, and can even
author Astrid Lindgren, whose story lift one.
about the freckle-faced, pigtailed nine-
year-old has been loved by children for Pippi lives by herself in a messy, yellow
70 years. house called Villa Villekulla. She doesn't
have parents telling her what to do (she
Since Pippi Longstocking was first pub- believes her ship captain father, lost
lished in 1945 (in the U.S. in 1950), it has at sea, is a cannibal king, and that her
sold over 60 million copies worldwide, mother's in Heaven). She doesn't go
translated into some 70 languages. to school, has a pet monkey named Mr.
Nilsson, and a horse who lives on the
What child hasn't fallen in love with this front porch. And she wants to be a pirate
spunky, fun-loving, independent char- when she grows up!
acter (whose official name is Pippilotta
Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Oh, and Pippi walks backwards now and
Efraim's Daughter Longstocking)? She then, climbs the big oak tree, rolls cook-
Photo by Sharon Whitley Larsen
48 Wine Dine & Travel Summer/Fall 2015
