With her suitcase of gold coins, Pippi maintains an independent lifestyle without her parents: her mother died soon after her birth her father, Captain Ephraim Longstocking, goes missing at sea, ultimately turning up as king of a South Sea island. Pippi soon befriends the two children living next door, Tommy and Annika Settergren. Nilsson, and her horse that is not named in the novels but called Lilla Gubben (Little Old Man) in the movies. At the start of the first novel, she moves into Villa Villekulla: the house she shares with her monkey, named Mr. Pippi Longstocking is a nine-year-old girl. They have been translated into 76 languages as of 2018 and made into several films and television series. The three Pippi chapter books ( Pippi Longstocking, Pippi Goes on Board, and Pippi in the South Seas) were published from 1945 to 1948, followed by three short stories and a number of picture book adaptations.
Her four best friends are her horse and monkey, and the neighbours' children, Tommy and Annika.Īfter being rejected by Bonnier Publishers in 1944, Lindgren's first manuscript was accepted by Rabén and Sjögren.
She is the daughter of a buccaneer captain and has adventure stories to tell about that, too. Pippi, like Peter Pan, does not want to grow up. Her anger comes out in extreme cases, such as when a man mistreats his horse. She often makes fun of unreasonable adults, especially if they are pompous and condescending.
Pippi is red-haired, freckled, unconventional and superhumanly strong – able to lift her horse one-handed. Pippi was named by Lindgren's daughter Karin, who asked her mother for a get-well story when she was off school. Pippi Longstocking ( Swedish: Pippi Långstrump) is the fictional main character in an eponymous series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. Pippi Longstocking as illustrated by Ingrid Vang Nyman on the Swedish cover of Pippi Goes On Board
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