Author: Astrid Lindgren
Title: Pippi Longstocking
Illustrator: -
Publisher: Original: Viking Press
Year: Original: 1950
Format: Paperback
Genre: Novel with Pictures
Reading Level: Independent Reader
Interest Level: Elementary, Secondary
Topics: Independent Child, Fantasy Powers
Summary:
"Pippi was indeed a remarkable child. The most remarkable things about her was that she was so strong. She was so very strong that in the whole world there was not a single police officer as strong as she. Why, she could lift a whole house if she wanted to! And she wanted to. She had a horse of her own that she had bought with one of her many gold pieces the day she came home to Villa Villekulla. She had always longed for a horse, and now here he was, living on the porch. When Pippi wanted to drink her afternoon coffee there, she simply lifted him down into the garden..."
Extension Activities:
- "Wild Child" Each child runs away from home and then makes up a story to justify his/her truancy.
- "Penelope" Each child makes up a lie more ridiculous than the last.
