"Way out at the end of a tiny little town was an old overgrown garden, and in the garden was an old house, and in the house lived Pippi Longstocking. She was nine years old, and she lived there all ...

"After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso, and monkey, Mr. Nilsson, and takes up residence in the old family home, ...

After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso,and her pet monkey, Mr. Neilson, and takes up residence in the old family ...

She lost her mother at an early age and her father was swept overboard on the high seas. Things couldn't get much worse for a 9-year-old girl. But Pippi Longstocking's travails didn't end there. Some ...

Anyone with the name “Pippi Longstocking” has to be an interesting character. “With such an unusual name, she became an unusual girl,” noted the late Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, whose story about ...