Pippi moves into in a house at the edge of a Swedish village with a horse, a monkey, a suitcase full of gold, and no grown-ups to tell her what to do. She has upside-down braids and is wild and funny and her crazy ideas have a way of making anything exciting! Naturally, the children next door, Tommy and Annika are curious about their new neighbor. The three children have the most rollicking adventures on their own, with horses and monkeys, the circus,...

In this sequel to the classic The Tomten, the creator of Pippi Longstocking adapts a Swedish folk tale into a beloved children’s story. When a hungry fox wanders into a farm late at night looking for food, the guard troll Tomten finds a way to keep the farm animals safe and feed the fox at the same time.

Pippi Longstocking's after-Christmas party includes such activities as undecorating the Christmas tree, opening presents, and sledding.

The brothers Jonathan and Karl journey through mythical valleys with monsters to match. The time is perhaps the Middle ages but timeless is a better description of the story and setting.

Pippi Longstocking, the red-headed, fabulously strong Swedish girl, decides to take her two measle-stricken friends, Tommy and Annika, to Kurrekurredutt Island where her father is busy being king. On that strange and wonderful South Sea island the children have one adventure after another.

Pippi and her friends, Tommy and Annika, attend the circus where Pippi walks the tightrope and wrestles with the "World's Strongest Man."

When the Nyman children are around, anything can happen--Jonas, Maria and Lotta are their names--but their father calls them Big Noise, Little Noise, and Little Nut.

Ten-year-old Lisa tells about her brothers and playmates and the happy times they spend at work and at play in their Swedish village. Welcome to Noisy Village! Go crayfishing in the summer at Nocken, "dipping in the pot" at Christmastime with Lisa and Karl, and join Britta and Anna who know the best way to go about "nutting" for the New Year. In this gently humorous tale, master storyteller Astrid Lindgren takes us through a year in the lives and...

Pippi, Tommy, and Annika have all kinds of adventures when they run away together.