Pippi Longstocking

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Image:Movie poster pippi.jpg Pippi Longstocking (Swedish Pippi Långstrump, whole name Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Efraim's Daughter Longstocking) is a fictional character in a series of children's books created by author Astrid Lindgren. She is a nine-year-old girl with red braids that stick out sideways. She is very unconventional, assertive, extraordinarily strong, and rich. She lives alone with a monkey and a horse in an old house named Villa Villekulla. Her friends Tommy and Annika accompany her on her adventures.

These children live with a complete lack of adult supervision, and they frequently mock and dupe the adults they do encounter; this certainly adds to the appeal these characters hold for their young readers. Actually its only Pippi that lives alone.

1 Books
2 Adaptations
3 Other language titles
4 External links

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Books

There are four Pippi Longstocking books:

1944 Pippi Longstocking
1946 Pippi Goes on Board
1948 Pippi in the South Seas.
1959 Pippi's After Christmas Party.

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Adaptations

A Swedish TV series was created based on the Pippi Longstocking books in the 1970s. Inger Nilsson gave a confident oddball performance that was uncommonly consistent and eccentric for a child actor.

The Swedish series was re-edited as 4 poorly-dubbed feature films for US distribution. They became weekend television staples in several cities in America throughout the 1970s and 80s. The original series, newly dubbed using British actors, became available in 2002.

An American feature film version was released in 1988, ironically titled The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (while the title suggests a continuation, it is in fact, a remake of the original story).

A remake as an animation series was released in 1997.

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Other language titles

Names for Pippi Longstocking in other languages:

In Afrikaans "Pipi Langkous"
In Albanian "Pipi Çorapegjata"
In Bosnian "Pipi Duga Čarapa"
In Bulgarian "Пипи Дългото Чорапче"
In Chinese ("Changwazi Pipi")
In Croatian "Pipi Duga Čarapa"
In Czech "Pipi Dlouhá Punčocha"
In Danish "Pippi Langstrømpe"
In Dutch "Pippi Langkous"
In Estonian "Pipi Pikksukk"
In Finnish "Peppi Pitkätossu"
In French "Fifi Brindacier" (one of the few versions that does not translate the last name literally as "long stocking"; the French version is literally translated as "brin d'acier", i.e., "strand of steel", and figuratively as "tiny bit of steel").
In Georgian "Pepi Magalitsinda"
In German "Pippi Langstrumpf"
In Greek ("Pipe Phakidomyte")
In Hebrew "בילבי בת-גרב" ("Bilbi Bat-Gerev")
In Hungarian "Harisnyás Pippi"
In Icelandic "Lína Langsokkur"
In Indonesian "Pippi Si Kaus Kaki Panjang"
In Italian "Pippi Calzelunghe"
In Japanese "長くつ下のピッピ" ("Nagakutsushita no Pippi")
In Korean "말괄량이 소녀 삐삐" ("Malgwallyang'i Sonyŏ Pippi")
In Kurdish "Pippi-Ya Goredirey"
In Latvian "Pepija Garzeķe"
In Lithuanian "Pepė Ilgakojinė"
In Macedonian "Pipi dolgiot corap"
In Norwegian "Pippi Langstrømpe"
In Persian "پی‌پی جوراب‌بلنده" ("Pipi Joorab-Bolandeh")
In Polish "Pippi Pończoszanka", also known as "Fizia Pończoszanka"
In Portuguese "Bibi Meialonga" (Brazil), "Pipi das Meias Altas" (Portugal)
In Romanian "Pippi Şoseţica"
In Russian "Пиппи Длинный Чулок" ("Pippi Dlinniychulok)" or "Пеппи Длинныйчулок" ("Peppi Dlinniychulok")
In Serbian "Pipi Duga Čarapa"
In Slovak "Pipi Dlhá Pančucha"
In Slovenian "Pika Nogavička"
In Spanish "Pipi Calzaslargas"
In Thai ("Pippi Thung-Taow Yaow")
In Turkish "Pippi Uzunçorap"
In Vietnamese "Pippi Tat Dai"