Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Pippi longstocking!

Pippi Longstocking is a fictional character of the age of 9 that is very popular and used in many many books, short stories, movies, and TV series, and also has her own theme song. She is a unique girl who has bright reddish orange hair in the style of pigtails that stick out, literally stick out! In most stories she is told to be e very talented swimmer and very Strong. In quotes on a VHS cover she is described as , "The Girl with the Strength of Superman!". She lives in a swidish villsge in a house she calls "Villa Villekulla". You might think it strange, or think she's lucky, but she lives with no parents or relatives. Instead she lives with her pet monkey named Mr. Nilsson, and her pet horse, Little Old Man. She has many adventures and often takes her two friends, the neighbor kids Tommy and Annika Settergren, with her. She is fair and will treat people, more adults than kids, the way they should be treated. She will show respect if they are kind, but if she does not find them nice she often acts like a foolish child who talked way to much. Pippi got her strength and common sense from her father, Ephram Longstocking, who was a captain of a ship.
Pippi got her name by the author, Astrid Lindren's nine year old daughter Karin. She was writing a story for her mother who was sick at the time, wishing her to get well.
Pippi is aloved charcter that everyone across the globe is interested in.

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