She always does just what she wants to do, which may include buying all the candy in town and giving it to the local children, making a spectacle of herself at the fair, and playing shipwrecked-on-a-desert-isle.īut at the climax of this book, Pippi has a hard time deciding what she really wants to do. She always speaks her mind, though often nonsense is on it. In this, the second book of stories about Pippi, our loud, tall-tale-telling heroine proves again why children love her and adults vaguely disapprove. She has freckles, mismatched stockings, and red braids that stick straight out. She looks after herself, and she plays with the children next door named Tommy and Annika. There are no adults around to tell her what to do, so she doesn’t go to school. She is also rich, so she can afford to live in a run-down house called Villa Villekulla on the outskirts of a small, Swedish town. At age 9 she can pick up her horse and carry it around. School Library JournalĬustomers who bought this item also bought.Pippi Longstocking is the strongest girl in the world. 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. 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 P ippi Longstocking, this is another rollicking adventure that's sure to please fans of the freckled, fun-loving little girl.

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.

Outrageous Pippi Longstocking has no parents around and no rules to follow, so she lives according to her own daredevilish ways. Reading Level: 5.3 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 4.0 WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers

Contributor(s): Lindgren, Astrid (Author), Beard, Susan (Translator), Vang Nyman, Ingrid (Illustrator)

Pippi Goes on Board by Astrid Lindgren