The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Lindgren, Astrid

Do You Know Pippi Longstocking?

28 pp. | Farrar/R&S | October, 1999 | Trade ISBN 91-29-64661-8 $$9.95

(4) K-3 Translated by Elisabeth Kallick Dyssegaard. Illustrated by Ingrid Nyman. This picture book, first published in Sweden in 1947, is translated into English for the first time. The several short episodes (Pippi the "thing-finder," Pippi at the circus, Pippi's birthday party) don't add up to a complete story; the cartoony illustrations in vivid colors look dated--but neither will bother young listeners, who will enjoy this innocuous introduction to a beloved character.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth