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 ...

The strange yet smart girl Pippi, who wears two red pigtails and has a freckled face, will come to Shanghai to be a tourist guide. Recently, it is learned from the Swedish Pavilion pages of the ...

A Swedish daycare’s trip to the local library in Borås took an unexpected turn recently and ended in a police report being filled over racial agitation (hets mot folkgrupp). According to GT, Expressen ...

Pippi Longstocking was anything but ordinary. The red-haired heroine of Swedish children’s literature took on the world with superhuman strength and unbridled imagination, with no parents to tell her ...

There have been three Pippi feature films and a Swedish TV series, syndicated worldwide. Lindgren's books, including Longstocking and a host of other characters, have sold 145 million in 91 languages.

The books come in celebration of late author Astrid Lindgren’s 80th birthday Sutton Foster is bringing a beloved book character to life in a whole new way. The Tony Award winner, 49, will narrate a ...

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 ...

It’s been over five decades since the beloved Pippi Longstocking TV series first aired in 1969, followed by its companion films. The story of the freckled, fearless Pippi and her kind-hearted ...

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 ...

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 ...