Pippi Longstocking By Astrid Lindgren Lit Link Grades 4 6

"Chapter questions and answer key ; language & literacy activities ; teacher guide for easy implementation."--Cover.

Astrid Lindgren, author of the famed Pippi Longstocking novels, is perhaps one of the most significant children's authors of the last half of the twentieth century. In this collection contributors consider films, music, and picturebooks relating to Lindgren, in addition to the author's reception internationally. Touching on everything from the Astrid Lindgren theme park at Vimmerby, Sweden to the hidden folk songs in Lindgren's works to the use of nostalgia in film adaptations of Lindgren's novels, this collection offers an important international and intermedial portrait of Lindgren research today.

Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey - but without any parents - at the edge of a Swedish village.

The beloved story of a spunky young girl and her hilarious escapades. "A rollicking story."--The Horn Book Tommy and his sister Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on her porch, and a flair for the outrageous that seems to lead to one adventure after another!

The adventures of the strongest girl in the world, who takes her two friends with her when she travels from Sweden to visit her father, king of an island in the South Seas.

After Tommy and Annika entice Pippi into going to school, her first-and-only day there is unlike anything they ever expected.

A powerful biography of the internationally renowned writer who created one of the most enduring characters in children's literature