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 ...

Actress Tami Erin, who played Pippi Longstocking in the 1988 film, is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the beloved children’s character with events, meet-and-greets, and a new documentary. The ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A movie based on Pippi Longstocking is in early development from the team behind the two “Paddington” movies Studiocanal and ...

A Pippi Longstocking lookalike visited second-graders at Bancroft Elementary in Minneapolis on April 23, 2015. The students studied the book "Pippi Longstocking" by Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren and ...

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A new biography of the Pippi Longstocking author Astrid Lindgren reveals an unorthodox life that helped shape one of children’s books’ most memorable characters. Once upon a time, long before ...

The beloved children’s book Pippi Longstocking was first published in 1945 and celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. Actress Tami Erin brought the character to life in the 1988 film The New ...

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 ...

Sutton Foster is bringing a beloved book character to life in a whole new way. The Tony Award winner, 49, will narrate a new series of Pippi Longstocking audiobooks, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal. 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 ...