Pippi Longstocking in the Park FROM THE PUBLISHER
Further adventures of the world's strongest girl.
The tiny town where Pippi Longstocking lives is really peaceful. But it's different in the big city. The city park is teeming with bad guys, and the police seem powerless to stop them. So Pippi decides to move to the park with her friends, Tommy and Annika, her monkey, and her horse — and Villa Villekulla. Pippi simply brings the boards and rebuilds the house in an afternoon. The very first evening, as the three friends gaze happily out at the city's twinkling lights, the bad guys show up to begin their usual fun. They pull men's mustaches and grab women's purses. But that's only until they come face-to-face with Pippi, the world's strongest girl!
Children will immediately identify with Pippi's independent spirit in this playful companion to Do You Know Pippi Longstocking?
Astrid Lindgren, born in l907, has written some of the world's most enduring children's books. They have been translated into sixty languages, from Persian to Zulu. She lives in Sweden. Ingrid Nyman (1916-59) was the original illustrator of Pippi.
FROM THE CRITICS
Children's Literature
Pippi Longstocking, the tiny little girl with the freckles and the pigtails, is at it again. Pippi may look like any other little girl, but she is not. Pippi is the strongest girl in the world. Pippi is not afraid to take on the bullies to make things better for her friends. And so it is that Pippi moves to the park, because bad-guy activities are disturbing the peace and even the police seem unable to stop it. Pippi and her friends move to the center of the park in the city of Stockholm. In her polite but stern way, Pippi sets about making things better. Once the bad guys stop making mischief in the park, Pippi spends a day with her friends just looking at all the things there are to see in the City Park. Young children will enjoy the experience of Pippi and her friends and will relate to her independence and simplicity. Simple drawings and six to ten lines of text per page make this an excellent read-aloud choice. 2001, R & S Books/Farrar Straus & Giroux, $9.95. Ages 6 to 10. Reviewer: Joyce Rice
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