Her full name is Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Ephraim’s Daughter Longstocking. But you can call her Pippi for short, which is the moniker several generations of young readers know ...

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Who is the strongest, brightest and richest girl in the world? Pippi Longstocking, of course, a fictional character created by renowned Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren. The 9-year-old girl, who lives ...

“Pippi Longstocking” has lost none of her boisterous good humor in the nearly 30 years since she first appeared onstage at Children’s Theatre Company. In this incarnation of the famous redhead, ...

The Pippi Longstocking series began through a trio of children’s chapter books published by Lindgren in the 1940s, which spun out into subsequent short stories and picture books. The franchise has ...

Sweden's much-loved Pippi Longstocking children books have been branded racist by a leading German theologian. Dr Eske Wollrad, from Germany's Federal Association of Evangelical Women, has called on ...

Pippi Longstocking is coming to the big screen. Studiocanal and Heyday Films, who partnered on the successful “Paddington” features, have joined forces with the Astrid Lindgren Company to work up the ...

A movie based on Pippi Longstocking is in early development from the team behind the two “Paddington” movies Studiocanal and Heyday Films, the production companies announced on Wednesday. Studiocanal ...