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Summary
Summary
Translation of: Pippi Langstrump gar ombord.
Author Notes
Astrid Lindgren: November 7, 1907 - January 28, 2002
There are few children's authors more famous than Astrid Lindgren, creator of the feisty, legendary heroine, Pippi Longstocking. Lindgren was born on November 14, 1907, in Sweden. Her work has been acclaimed with many prestigious awards, among them the Hans Christian Andersen Medal (1958), the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1978), and the International Book Award (1993). This truly internationally known author was the recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Medal and has been honored repeatedly in her native Sweden. There is a bronze statue of her in a Stockholm park. Her picture is on a postage stamp. The "World of Astrid Lindgren" is a theme park featuring the wholesome characters of her books. The annual children's literature award is known as the Astrid Lindgren Prize.
The inspiration for this long and illustrious career, spanning five decades, is the author's own childhood. Her memories - of free and often wild play with her brothers and sister, of loving parents, of a close-knit farm community, of reading about heroines like Pollyanna and Anne of Green Gables - became the foundations of her books. Lindgren has said, "I write to amuse the child within me, and I can only hope that in this way other children as well can have a little fun."
Lindgren amused her own children by telling them stories. Her daughter, Karin, named Pippi Longstocking, and the first written story was given to Karin as a birthday gift. The next year, 1945, Pippi Longstocking won a best children's book competition and Lindgren began writing the perennially child-pleasing stories that make up her enormous body of work, some of which are the series based on "Children of Noisy Village", the fable "The Tomten", the rambunctious "Karlson-On-the-Roof", the irrepressible"Lotta on Troublemaker Street" , the controversial "The Brothers Lionheart", and the unforgettable, wildly funny superheroine, Pippi, was featured in other books and became a star of stage, screen and television.
Lindgren has been called the world's most read author of children's books. She is hailed as the third most translated children's book author after H.C. Andersen and the Grimm brothers. Her impact on the world of children's literature is immeasurable. Astrid Lindgren died in her sleep, in her home in Sweden on January 28, 2002 at the age of 94.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Excerpts
Excerpts
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 visitor had plenty of time and wasn't in any hurry to catch a train that evening, in which case he would stop and chat with Pippi for a while and eventually realize that she did live in Villa Villekulla all alone, apart from a horse and a monkey. And if the visitor was kindhearted, he probably couldn't help thinking: "What does the poor child live on, exactly?" But he most definitely shouldn't trouble himself about that. "I'm as rich as a mountain troll," Pippi always said. And she was. She had a whole traveling bag full of golden coins her dad had given her. So the visitor needn't think Pippi went without anything. She managed extremely well, despite not having a mum or a dad. Except, of course, there was no one to tell her when it was bedtime. But Pippi had found a good way: she told herself! Sometimes she didn't tell herself until it was ten o'clock at night, because Pippi had never believed in the notion that children had to go to bed at seven. After all, that was when you were having the most fun. So the visitor shouldn't be at all surprised to see Pippi striding around her garden, even though the sun had gone down and it was starting to feel a little chilly and Tommy and Annika had been snoring in their beds for ages. Who were Tommy and Annika? Oh, the visitor couldn't know that, either! Tommy and Annika were Pippi's friends, you see! They lived in the house next door to Villa Villekulla. It was a pity the visitor hadn't arrived a little earlier, because then he would have been able to see Tommy andAnnika. He would have seen two very sweet, well--behaved children, that's for sure. Without a doubt he would have found Tommy and Annika at Pippi's if only he had turned up a little earlier, because Tommy and Annika ran over to Pippi's house every single day and were always with her, except when they were sleeping and when they were eating and when they were at school. But at this time of night they were fast asleep in their beds, of course, because Tommy and Annika had a mum and a dad, and both their mum and dad were convinced that it was best for children to go to bed at seven o'clock. If the visitor to the town had a great deal of time to spare, he might stay behind after Pippi said good night and walked off up her garden path, simply to see what she would get up to all on her own and whether she really wasn't going to go indoors to bed soon. He could stand behind the gatepost and peep round it cautiously. Then what if Pippi did what she sometimes did in the evening when she was in the mood for a little ride on her horse? What if she stepped onto the veranda, lifted the horse high into the air on her strong arms, and carried him into the garden? That would make the visitor rub his eyes, all right, and wonder if he was dreaming! "Oh my goodness, what kind of child is this?" he might say, behind the gatepost. "I do believe she can lift that horse up! This is the most remarkable child I have ever seen!" And he was right. Pippi was the most remarkable child ever---in that town, at least. There might be more remarkable children in other places, but in the tiny little town there was no one quite like Pippi Longstocking. And nowhere, not in the little town or in any spot in the whole wide world, was there a child as strong as she was. Excerpted from Pippi Goes on Board by Astrid Lindgren All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
Table of Contents
1 Pippi at Home in Villa Villekulla | p. 9 |
2 Pippi Goes Shopping | p. 13 |
3 Pippi Writes a Letter and Goes to School-But Only a Little Bit | p. 34 |
4 Pippi Goes to the School Picnic | p. 46 |
5 Pippi Goes to the Fair | p. 61 |
6 Pippi Is Shipwrecked | p. 81 |
7 Pippi Gets Unexpected Company | p. 105 |
8 Pippi Has a Farewell Party | p. 117 |
9 Pippi Goes Aboard | p. 129 |