Pippi Goes on Board

Informationen zum Autor Astrid Lindgren; Translated by Susan Beard; Illustrated by Ingrid Vang Nyman Klappentext Outrageous Pippi Longstocking has no parents around and no rules to follow, so she lives according to her own daredevilish ways. She's been treating her friends Tommy and Annika to wild adventures, too--like buying and eating seventy-two pounds of candy, or sailing off to an island in the middle of a lake to see what it's like to be shipwrecked. But then Pippi's long lost father returns, and she might have to leave Villa Villekulla! From the Hans Christian Andersen Medal-winning author of the classic Pippi Longstocking, this is another rollicking adventure that's sure to please fans of the freckled, fun-loving little girl. "Lovers of Pippi Longstocking will welcome this rollicking tale of a topsy-turvy world in which Pippi and her next-door neighbors put into practice some ideas about good times." - School Library Journal Leseprobe 1 Pippi Still Lives in Villa Villekulla If a stranger should happen to travel to the tiny little town and perhaps quite by accident find he has wandered too far in one direction, he would see Villa Villekulla. Not that the house was much to look at, being quite an old and run--down sort of house, sitting in quite an old and overgrown garden, but the stranger might stop anyway and wonder who owned it. Naturally, all the people living in the tiny little town knew who lived in Villa Villekulla, and they also knew why there was a horse on the veranda. But someone coming from anywhere else wouldn't know that, of course. So he would probably wonder. Especially if it was getting very late and was practically dark, and he caught sight of a little girl striding around the garden even though it was so late, not looking at all as if she was thinking of going to bed. He would be bound to think: I wonder why that little girl's mother hasn't told her it's bedtime? Every other child is in bed by now, that's for sure. For how would the visitor know that the little girl didn't have a mother? She didn't have a father, either, for that matter, at least not one who was at home. Quite simply, she lived there all alone in Villa Villekulla. Well, perhaps not really all alone, to be absolutely accurate, because her horse lived on the veranda. And she had a monkey, too, called Mr. Nilsson. But naturally, anyone visiting the town wouldn't know anything about that. If the little girl walked to the front gate-and it was very probable she would, because she liked chatting with people-he'd have the chance of getting a proper look at her. And no doubt he couldn't help thinking: That is the freckliest, most red--haired child I have ever seen. And then he might think: Actually, it's really nice to be freckly and red--haired. At least if you look as if you're bursting with life the way this child does. He might be interested to know the name of the freckly, red--haired girl skipping around in the twilight, and if he happened to be standing beside the gate, all he had to do was ask: What's your name? And the answer, in a very bright and chirpy voice, was likely to be: My name is Pippilotta Victoriaria Tea--cozyAppleminta Ephraim's--daughter Longstocking, daughterof Captain Ephraim Longstocking, former terror of the high seas and now a South Sea Island king. But I'm called Pippi for short. Yes, that's right! The girl was none other than Pippi Longstocking, and if she said her dad was a South Sea Island king, then that's what she believed. For her dad had once blown overboard and disappeared when he and Pippi were sailing the oceans, and because Pippi's dad was rather fat, she was positively convinced he hadn't drowned. Very likely he had floated ashore on an island and become king of all the Koratutt people. And that's precisely what Pippi thought. It might happen that the...

Autorentext

Astrid Lindgren; Translated by Susan Beard; Illustrated by Ingrid Vang Nyman

Klappentext

Outrageous Pippi Longstocking has no parents around and no rules to follow, so she lives according to her own daredevilish ways. She's been treating her friends Tommy and Annika to wild adventures, too--like buying and eating seventy-two pounds of candy, or sailing off to an island in the middle of a lake to see what it's like to be shipwrecked. But then Pippi's long lost father returns, and she might have to leave Villa Villekulla!

From the Hans Christian Andersen Medal-winning author of the classic Pippi Longstocking, this is another rollicking adventure that's sure to please fans of the freckled, fun-loving little girl.

"Lovers of Pippi Longstocking will welcome this rollicking tale of a topsy-turvy world in which Pippi and her next-door neighbors put into practice some ideas about good times." - School Library Journal