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Pippi Longstocking (Swedish: Pippi Långstrump) is the fictional main character in a series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. Pippi was named by Lindgren's daughter Karin, who asked her mother for a get-well story when she was off school.
The book focuses on the experiences of Pippi Långstrump, a nine-year-old pigtailed redhead whose mother died when she was a baby and whose father, a sea captain, has seemingly vanished at sea, so she moves into a big house known as Villa Villekulla, located in a little Swedish village, with her pet monkey Mr. Nilsson, a suitcase filled with pieces of gold, and her unnamed pet horse.
Pippi in the South Seas is a 1948 sequel to Astrid Lindgren's classic children's books, Pippi Longstocking and Pippi Goes on Board.It is set sometime after the events of the original book and centers around Pippi's further misadventures and experiences, but also Pippi's theory that the reason for her father's mysterious disappearance that he was hailed as king of an island of natives is ...
The upcoming series includes the original Pippi Longstocking novel, as well as Pippi Goes on Board and Pippi in the South Seas. Pippi Longstocking was first published by Swedish author Lindgren as ...
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking is a 1988 musical adventure film [1] written and directed by Ken Annakin, based on the Pippi Longstocking book series by Astrid Lindgren. It is a Swedish-German-American [2] joint venture produced by Columbia Pictures, Longstocking Productions, and Svensk Filmindustri. While the title suggests a ...
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Villa Villekulla is a fictional house that is the home of Pippi Longstocking, a character in a series of books. She lives there with her horse and monkey, Mr. Nilsson . Outside stands a tree that grows Sockerdricka , a soft drink sold in Sweden.
"Pippi Longstocking" was shown in Shirley Temple's Storybook, a weekly storybook anthology on NBC. [1] It was first broadcast on 8 January 1961 in the US-American television. [ 2 ] The film was the first US-American adaption of Pippi Longstocking.