Download or read book Pippi Longstocking Gift Edition eBook written by Astrid Lindgren and published by Oxford University Press - Children. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pippi Longstocking is nine years old. She has just moved into Villa Villekulla where she lives all by herself with a horse, a monkey, and a big suitcase full of gold coins. The grown-ups in the village try to make Pippi behave in ways that they think a little girl should, but Pippi has other ideas. She would much rather spend her days arranging wild, exciting adventures to enjoy with her neighbours, Tommy and Annika, or entertaining everyone she meets with her outrageous stories. Pippi thinks nothing of wrestling a circus strongman, dancing a polka with burglars, or tugging a bull's tail. Generations of children have fallen in love with Pippi Longstocking. Just like Tommy and Annika, readers are instantly charmed by her warmth and sense of fun. Astrid Lindgren's children's classic first appeared in 1945. Astrid once commented, 'I write to amuse the child within me, and can only hope that other children may have some fun that way, too.' When she was growing up, Lauren Child loved Astrid Lindgren's books. She remembers: 'I discovered Pippi when I was about eight years old and found her completely inspiring.' Known and loved as the creator of some equally feisty little girls - notably Clarice Bean and Lola - Lauren has brought her own inimitable style to this beautifully-illustrated edition of Pippi Longstocking.
Download or read book Pippi Longstocking Goes Aboard eBook written by Astrid Lindgren and published by Oxford University Press - Children. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This flagship gift edition illustrated by Lauren Child is a glorious celebratory tribute to the strongest girl in the world in her 75th anniversary year. Pippi Longstocking lives in Villa Villekulla with a horse, a monkey, and a big suitcase full of gold coins. Pippi and her friends Tommy and Annika have the best time together-going to the fair, buying ALL the sweets in the sweet shop, and getting shipwrecked for the weekend. But the fun might stop all too soon if Pippi agrees to go back to sea with her father.
Download or read book Pippi Goes Aboard written by Astrid Lindgren and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pippi's father, a cannibal king, comes to visit. 8 yrs+
Download or read book Pippi Longstocking Gift Edition written by Astrid Lindgren and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren's nine-year-old heroine, burst onto the bookshelf in 1945 and has remained a firm favourite with children all over the world. Here her story is illustrated with flair and humour by Lauren Child, winner of both the Kate Greenaway Award and the Nestlé Smarties Gold Award.
Download or read book Pippi Goes on Board written by Astrid Lindgren and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1977-02-24 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outrageous Pippi Longstocking has no parents around and no rules to follow, so she lives according to her own daredevilish ways. 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! From the Hans Christian Andersen Medal-winning author of the classic Pippi Longstocking, this is another rollicking adventure that's sure to please fans of the freckled, fun-loving little girl. "Lovers of Pippi Longstocking will welcome this rollicking tale of a topsy-turvy world in which Pippi and her next-door neighbors put into practice some ideas about good times." - School Library Journal
Download or read book Pippi Longstocking Goes Aboard written by Astrid Lindgren and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This flagship gift edition illustrated by Lauren Child is a glorious celebratory tribute to the strongest girl in the world, Pippi Longstocking, in her 75th anniversary year.
Download or read book Pippi Longstocking Puffin Modern Classics written by Astrid Lindgren and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-04-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved story of a spunky young girl and her hilarious escapades. "A rollicking story."--The Horn Book 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!
Download or read book Astrid Lindgren written by Jens Andersen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, one of Denmark’s most popular biographers. Based on extensive research and access to primary sources and letters, this highly readable account describes Lindgren’s battles with depression and her personal struggles through war, poverty, motherhood, and fame. Andersen examines the writer’s oeuvre as well to uncover the secrets to the books’ universal appeal and why they have resonated so strongly with young readers for more than seventy years.
Download or read book Pippi Longstocking written by Astrid Lindgren and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pippi Longstocking is one of the most popular children's characters of all time, with dedicated fans all over the world. She's funny, feisty, and incredibly strong, and has the most amazing adventures!
Download or read book Pippi Moves In written by Astrid Lindgren and published by Enfant. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE LOST MASTERPIECE FROM ASTRID LINDGREN'S CHILDREN'S CLASSIC Pippi Moves In marks the first time that the legendary Pippi Longstocking comics by the famed children's author and creator Astrid Lindgren and Danish illustrator Ingrid Vang Nyman will be published outside of Scandinavia in thirty years, as well as their first ever publication in English. The outspoken strong-girl with the carrot-colored pigtails and the mismatched socks has enthralled generations of children the world over with her fabulous exploits at Villa Villekulla, where she lives with her horse and monkey. Countless translations of the chapter books are available in more than sixty languages. Pippi is Sweden's best-known children's export, making it all the more remarkable that D+Q has discovered what will be a three-volume series. The comics are re-imaginings of the classic chapter book stories and were originally published in the Swedish magazine Humpty Dumpty in 1957–1959, a decade after the original books. The comics spotlight both Lindgren's brilliant writing and Vang Nyman's bold bright colors that seem presciently and eerily modern. The original illustrator for the chapter books, Vang Nyman was an avant-garde champion of the importance of children's literature who insisted that art in children's books needed to meet the same esthetic standards as art in any other medium. Sadly Vang Nyman never achieved international success, and tragically committed suicide in 1959 due to mental health issues, while Lindgren went on to become one of the world's best-loved writers with more than 145 million books sold worldwide. Similar to D+Q's 2005 unearthing of the Tove Jansson's Moomin comic strip, which has more than 100,000 units in print, these mid-century classics are waiting to be discovered and enjoyed by the world's legions of Pippi fans, both young and old.
Download or read book Pippi Goes to the Circus written by Astrid Lindgren and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pippi and her friends, Tommy and Annika, attend the circus where Pippi walks the tightrope and wrestles with the World's Strongest Man
Download or read book Pippi Goes on Board written by Astrid Lindgren and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Longstocking returns from his long absence at sea to claim his adventurous daughter Pippi.
Download or read book Pippi Longstocking in the Park written by Astrid Lindgren and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pippi lives in a peaceful little town, but in the big city park bullies rule.
Download or read book Pippi in the South Seas written by Astrid Lindgren and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of the strongest girl in the world, who takes her two friends with her when she travels from Sweden to visit her father, king of an island in the South Seas.
Download or read book Pippi After Christmas Party written by Astrid Lindgren and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pippi Longstocking's after-Christmas party includes such activities as undecorating the Christmas tree, opening presents, and sledding.
Download or read book The Best of Pippi Longstocking written by Astrid Lindgren and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pippi lives in a house with a horse, a monkey, a suitcase full of gold, and no grown-ups to tell her what to do. She's wild and funny and her crazy ideas have a way of making anything exciting! This edition contains all three classic Pippi Longstocking adventures.
Download or read book Pippi Longstocking and the Snirkle Hunt eBook written by Astrid Lindgren and published by Oxford University Press - Children. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pippi Longstocking makes the everyday extraordinary, and spreads fun wherever she goes. In this new, highly-illustrated edition of one of her classic adventures, she invents a new word - and then becomes determined to find out what the word means. Join her and her friends Tommy and Annika as they set out to find a snirkle...
