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(0)Astrid Lindgren
Author
Series
Pippi Longstocking volume 1
Language
English
Description
Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village.
Author
Language
English
Description
These personal diaries by the author of Pippi Longstocking chronicle her experiences in Europe during WWII and her astute observations of the conflict.
Before she became internationally known for her Pippi Longstocking books, Astrid Lindgren was an aspiring author living in Stockholm with her family at the outbreak of the Second World War. The diaries she kept throughout the hostilities offer her unique perspective, as a civilian, a mother, and an...
3) The Tomten
Author
Language
English
Description
At a lonely old farm house, deep in the forest on a crisp winter's night, everyone sleeps. All but one . . . the old Tomten, a little troll whom no human being has ever seen. In the moonlight, he moves about the farm, comforting the animals in a silent little language.
Author
Series
Pippi Longstocking comics volume 2
Publisher
Enfant
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The world's most beloved strong-girl fights fires, saves babies, and causes mischief at a tea party. Pippi returns to fix everything in this latest book of comics. Not only do Pippi and her friends celebrate her birthday but we meet Pipp's long lost father, The Island King."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Pippi Longstocking comics volume 3
Publisher
Enfant
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of Pippi Longstocking, the world's strongest girl, as she brings Tommy and Annika to visit the island her father lives on.
Author
Series
Pippi Longstocking volume 3
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
The adventures of the strongest girl in the world, who takes her two friends with her when she travels from Sweden to visit her father, king of an island in the South Seas.
9) Mio, my son
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Young Anders is carried away from his bleak life as an unloved foster child in Stockholm, Sweden, to become Mio, son of the King of Farawayland.
Author
Series
Pippi Longstocking volume 2
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
The further adventures of Pippi and her friends Tommy and Annika.
14) The Tomten
Author
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Tomten, a little troll who talks to all the animals that live at a lonely, old farmhouse.
Author
Publisher
Dobrai͡a kniga
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Russian
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Description
Poor Johan is miserable when the family's only cow, Emma dies just before Christmas. She was his friend and they have no money to buy another. But when Johan goes out to clear snow, what does he find in the ditch? Maybe he'll have a happy Christmas after all.
Author
Publisher
[distributor] Oxford University Press Southern Africa
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Do you know Pippi Longstocking? There's no one quite like her! Her cheeky, dare-devil spirit is much loved throughout the world, making her one of the all-time greatest children's characters.
'Pippi is in the great tradition of children's protagonists who subvert the adult world, whether by questioning it, like Alice, or simply throwing it into chaos, like Dr Seuss's Cat in the Hat.' Sean French, The Guardian 'Generations of children have grown up...
