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 ...

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 ...