The Swedish author Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) is beloved around the world for her best-selling children’s books (most notably “Pippi Longstocking”), but “Becoming ...

If I could pick one book to read forever, it would be Pippi Longstocking. I chose this book because I like the storyline and the main characters’ personalities. The main character, Pippi ...

an orange cat whose meow doesn't have an 'm'; an eleven-year-old girl who looks like Pippi Longstocking; and the pediatric dentist with a sense of humor and a crooked smile who makes her way past ...

and first wrote In Search of Efraim and Pippi Longstocking and the King, on which Fridell-Stark based their script. Lindgren's first Pippi book was rejected by Sweden's Bonnier Publishing - Time ...