The Horn Book Guide

INTERMEDIATE FICTION

Lindgren, Astrid

Pippi Longstocking

205 pp. | Viking | October, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-0-670-06276-8 $25.00
New ed. (1950)

(3) 4-6 Translated by Tiina Nunnally. Illustrated by Lauren Child. This glorious oversize edition, felicitously translated, celebrates the hundredth anniversary of Lindgren's birth. Child has outdone herself in conveying the mayhem and magic of Pippi's world. Using her trademark collages and clever typographical designs, she makes us believe that Pippi can hardly be contained within the pages and might come bursting forth the minute we turn our backs.

Reviewer: Terri Schmitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 1950