Biography and plot. Pippi Longstocking How Pippi surprises all the townspeople

Pippi Langstrump

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Pippi Långstrump i Söderhavet

Pippi Långstrump © Text: Astrid Lindgren 1945 / Saltkrakan AB

Pippi Långstrump går ombord © Text: Astrid Lindgren 1946 / Saltkrakan AB

Pippi Langstrump i Söderhavet © Text: Astrid Lindgren 1948 / Saltkrakan AB

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How Pippi settled in the Chicken Villa

On the outskirts of a small Swedish town you will see a very neglected garden. And in the garden there is a dilapidated house, blackened by time. It is in this house that Pippi Longstocking lives. She was nine years old, but imagine, she lives there all alone. She has neither a dad nor a mother, and, frankly, this even has its advantages - no one makes her go to bed right in the middle of the game and no one forces her to drink fish oil when she wants to eat candy.

Before, Pippi had a father, and she loved him very much. Of course, she once had a mother, too, but Pippi no longer remembers her at all. Mom died a long time ago, when Pippi was still a tiny girl, lying in a stroller and screaming so terribly that no one dared to approach her. Pippi is sure that her mother now lives in heaven and looks from there through a small hole at her daughter. That's why Pippi often waves her hand and says every time:

- Don't be afraid, mom, I won't get lost!

But Pippi remembers her father very well. He was a sea captain, his ship plied the seas and oceans, and Pippi was never separated from her father. But then one day, during a strong storm, a huge wave washed him out to sea, and he disappeared. But Pippi was sure that one fine day her dad would return; she could not imagine that he had drowned. She decided that her father ended up on an island where many, many blacks live, became king there and walks around every day with a golden crown on his head.

- My dad is a black king! Not every girl can boast of such an amazing dad,” Pippi often repeated with visible pleasure. - When dad builds a boat, he will come for me, and I will become a black princess. Gay-hop! This will be great!

My father bought this old house, surrounded by a neglected garden, many years ago. He planned to settle here with Pippi when he grew old and could no longer drive ships. But after dad disappeared into the sea, Pippi went straight to her villa “Chicken” to wait for his return. Villa “Chicken” was the name of this old house. There was furniture in the rooms, utensils hung in the kitchen - it seemed that everything had been specially prepared so that Pippi could live here. One quiet summer evening, Pippi said goodbye to the sailors on her father's ship. They all loved Pippi so much, and Pippi loved them all so much that it was very sad to leave.

- Goodbye, guys! - said Pippi and kissed each one on the forehead in turn. - Don't be afraid, I won't disappear!

She took only two things with her: a small monkey whose name was Mr. Nilsson - she received it as a gift from her dad - and a large suitcase filled with gold coins. All the sailors lined up on the deck and sadly looked after the girl until she disappeared from sight. But Pippi walked with a firm step and never looked back. Mister Nilsson was sitting on her shoulder, and she was carrying a suitcase in her hand.

- She left alone... Strange girl... But how can you hold her back! - said the sailor Fridolf when Pippi disappeared around the bend, and wiped away a tear.

He was right, Pippi really is a strange girl. What is most striking is her extraordinary physical strength, and there is no policeman on earth who could cope with her. She could jokingly lift a horse if she wanted - and you know, she does this often. After all, Pippi has a horse, which she bought on the very day she moved into her villa. Pippi always dreamed of a horse. The horse lives on her terrace. And when Pippi wants to have a cup of coffee there after lunch, without thinking twice she takes the horse out into the garden.

Next to the villa “Chicken” there is another house, also surrounded by a garden. In this house live a father, a mother and two cute children - a boy and a girl. The boy's name is Tommy, and the girl's name is Annika. These are nice, well-mannered and obedient children. Tommy never begs anyone for anything and carries out all his mother’s instructions without arguing. Annika doesn't get capricious when she doesn't get what she wants, and she always looks so smart in her clean, starched chintz dresses. Tommy and Annika played together in their garden, but still they missed the children's company, and they dreamed of finding a playmate. At a time when Pippi was still sailing with her father across the seas and oceans, Tommy and Annika sometimes climbed the fence separating the garden of the Chicken Villa from their garden, and each time they said:

- What a pity that no one lives in this house. It would be great if someone with children could live here.

On that clear summer evening when Pippi first crossed the threshold of her villa, Tommy and Annika were not at home. Mom sent them to stay with their grandmother for a week. Therefore, they had no idea that someone had moved into the neighboring house. They returned from their grandmother in the evening, and the next morning they stood at their gate, looking at the street, still not knowing anything, and discussing what they should do. And just at that moment, when it seemed to them that they would not be able to come up with anything funny and that the day would pass boringly, just at that moment the gate of the neighboring house opened and a girl ran out into the street. This was the most amazing girl Tommy and Annika had ever seen.

Pippi Longstocking was going for a morning walk. This is what she looked like: her carrot-colored hair was braided into two tight braids that stuck out in different directions; the nose looked like a tiny potato, and besides, it was speckled with freckles; White teeth sparkled in his large, wide mouth. She was wearing a blue dress, but since she apparently didn’t have enough blue material, she sewed red patches into it here and there. She pulled long stockings of different colors onto her very thin and thin legs: one was brown and the other was black. And the huge black shoes seemed about to fall off. Dad bought them for her in South Africa to grow into, and Pippi never wanted to wear others.

And when Tommy and Annika saw that a monkey was sitting on the shoulder of an unfamiliar girl, they simply froze in amazement. The little monkey was dressed in blue trousers, a yellow jacket and a white straw hat.

According to a popular newspaper, “her adoration turned everything upside down: school, family, normal behavior,” because books about her “ridiculed order and respect, politeness and honesty, and glorified escape from reality.”

For radical feminists, she is "the model of a woman in childhood." But for frightened socialists she is an “elite individualist.” And - oh, horror! - from the point of view of a respectable professor, this is “an unnatural girl, whose adventures only cause disgust and traumatize the soul.”

What kind of terrible subversive of foundations is this? The poisonous arrows of critics are aimed at the children's favorite mischief ─ Pippi Longstocking! Or Pippi Löngstrump, in the Swedish style.

Pippi is the “calling card” of the great storyteller Astrid Lindgren. Why, Lindgren has more than once admitted with a laugh that the girl in multi-colored stockings is very reminiscent of herself. The writer’s closest people, her son and daughter, proudly confirmed the same. Lasse recalled how one day my mother jumped into a tram at full speed, despite the menacing shouts of the conductor, the threat of a fine, and a shoe lost in the jump. And with what pleasure Astrid participated in all the children's games! Karin says that even in old age, my mother climbed trees. Yes, little Karin came up with a name for Pippi, but Astrid herself endowed the character with a rebellious character.

Everyone knows the story of how Karin Lindgren fell ill with pneumonia at the age of seven, and her mother made up funny stories about Pippi to console her daughter. But why did Astrid tell her daughter fairy tales that still shock prim mothers and highbrow literary critics?

In the 30s of the 20th century, Sweden moved at an accelerated pace towards the victory of socialism with a national face. The new model of government was called the “People's House”, and the topic of educating the younger generation was at the top. Activists advocated for the adoption of orphans and for the adaptation of disabled people into society. But ordinary children also came under the closest attention, right up to the opening of specialized psychiatric clinics for behavioral correction of young patients.

And here’s what’s interesting: people of the old formation, with slogans about family values, subconsciously pinned their hopes on the return of rigid, orthodox methods of pedagogy. However, in reality, in an industrial developing society, optimism, enthusiasm and resourcefulness in children have come to be valued higher than old-fashioned “good manners” and resigned obedience. A conflict arose between the teachers, which escalated into a heated public debate.

Among Russian book lovers, the most widespread are two diametrically opposed versions of what Astrid Lindgren did in the 1930s and 40s. According to one, she led the comfortable life of a child-loving housewife, occasionally doing small and uncomplicated secretarial work and from time to time writing small fairy tales for family almanacs. According to another version, Lindgren, no less, was a member of the Swedish National Socialist Party and was an ardent fan of Hermann Goering: having allegedly met ace pilot Goering at an air show in the 1920s, the impressed Astrid in the future scrupulously embodied the features of “Nazi No. 2"… in Carlson: charisma, appetite, aerobatics. The first version is a biography of the writer, edited for the Soviet press. The second is an online “duck” published in 2010 and still “flying” on the Internet.

It is reliably known that Lindgren was not a member of any party, although she supported the Social Democrats and, being old, even stated that if not for her creativity, she would have been involved in politics. The writer’s initiatives include the fight for children’s rights, for reducing the tax burden, and for humane treatment of pets. Not only Sweden, but also Russia, Poland, Great Britain, France, Holland, the USA and other countries, as well as UNESCO, awarded Lindgren for literary creativity, humanism, protection of children and childhood.

If we talk specifically about the 1930-40s, then Astrid can hardly be called a social activist. Rather, this definition was suitable for her journalist sister and politician brother. Gunnar Eriksson supported the Agrarian Party (now the Center Party), and in the 1930s the Agrarian manifestos really moved dangerously close to Nazi ideology when, through farming and selective breeding, they suddenly came to eugenics and the slogans “Sweden for the Swedes.”

Astrid was not an ordinary housewife either. In the late 30s, she became a secretary to the world-famous Swedish criminologist Harry Söderman (he just became the first head of the National Forensic Laboratory). Later, this experience inspired Lindgren to write detective stories about the young detective Kalle Blumkvist. During World War II, Astrid was a secret employee of the State Security Service. The Secret Service was engaged in wiretapping telephone conversations and perlustration (secret viewing) of citizens' letters in order to identify those in neutral Sweden who sympathized with the warring parties.

But let's return to little Pippi, the first book about which was published in the year the war ended - 1945.

As a mother, Astrid Lindgren was keenly interested in the debate about child-rearing methods. Lindgren was firmly convinced that the only true way to educate is to listen to the child, respect and take care of his feelings, and value his thoughts. Take into account his individual psychology and not put pressure, but liberate him, help him express himself.

What seems obvious, beautiful and correct in words, is implemented in practice with great difficulty. A child who disobeys rules and regulations? A child who needs to “steer” without shouting, spanking, or spanking? Who should be considered as an equal? This kind of miracle-judo will still terrify any adult, but in the first half of the 20th century, Lindgren’s beliefs were a break in the mold, a challenge, a revolution.

So, the story of the mischievous Pippi, who settled in the “Chicken” villa, embodied new ideas for educating the younger generation.

In 1944, for her daughter’s 10th birthday, the future writer gave a homemade book about Pippi, and sent a copy of it to the famous publishing house Bonniers. In her accompanying letter, Astrid referred to the philosopher, mathematician, and future Nobel laureate in literature Bertrand Russell: “I read from Russell that the main feature of a child’s psychology is his desire to be an adult, or, more precisely, his thirst for power.” And she added, referring to her own essay: “I hope you won’t raise any alarms in the child welfare department.”

The manuscript was rejected. One can only guess how furiously Bonniers bit their elbows and other hard-to-reach places when the rejected writer suddenly began publishing book after book under the auspices of competitors, giving the Raben&Sjogren publishing house worldwide fame and considerable profits. I think the publishers who rejected Rowling's Harry Potter will understand them best.

Sometimes it seems that every good children's book inevitably meets with furious protest from adult readers. This, of course, is not true. And yet, when Sweden met Pippi in 1945, many parents could not discern in the red-haired 9-year-old eccentric her hard work, independence, sense of responsibility for herself and others, selfless friendly participation in the life of every person, caring, generosity and creativity. attitude to life, thanks to which Pippi knows how to turn any event into a game.

“When I grow up, I will sail the seas,” Tommy said firmly, “I, too, will become a sea robber, like Pippi.
“Wonderful,” said Pippi. - Thunderstorm of the Caribbean - that's what you and I will be, Tommy. We will take away gold, jewelry, diamonds from everyone, we will set up a hiding place in some grotto on an uninhabited island of the Pacific Ocean, we will hide all our treasures there, and our grotto will be guarded by three skeletons, which we will place at the entrance. And we will also hang out a black flag with the image of a skull and two crossed bones and every day we will sing “Fifteen Men and a Dead Man’s Box,” so loudly that we will be heard on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and from our song all the sailors will turn pale and wonder, Shouldn't they immediately throw themselves overboard to avoid our bloody revenge?
- And me? - Annika asked plaintively. - I don’t want to become a sea robber. What will I do alone?
“You will still swim with us,” Pippi reassured her. - You will wipe the dust from the piano in the wardroom.
The fire went out.
“Perhaps it’s time to go to bed,” said Pippi.
She lined the floor of the tent with spruce wood and covered it with several thick blankets.
- Do you want to lie next to me in the tent? - Pippi asked the horse. - Or would you rather spend the night under a tree? I can blanket you. You say you feel unwell every time you lie down in a tent? “Well, let it be your way,” said Pippi and patted the horse’s rump in a friendly manner.”

Adults were offended by the negative images of their peers in the fairy tale, who refused to understand Pippi, not noticing that they were exactly copying the reaction of these characters.

Meanwhile, authoritative experts on children's literature Eva von Zweigberg and Greta Bulin (Lindgren scholars love to refer to them), and after them the critic Kaisa Lindsten and many others claim: “Pippi embodies the childhood dream of breaking taboos and feeling one’s power. She is a way out of the everyday and authoritarian regime."

Refusing to submit to an authoritarian regime, Pippi is at the same time the embodiment of justice in the broadest sense. Remember how the strongest girl in the world easily lifts and carries a horse in her arms? That's the same! Do you remember why?

“When they were almost there, Pippi suddenly jumped out of the saddle, patted the horse’s sides and said:
“You’ve been driving us all for so long and you’re probably tired.” There cannot be such an order that some are always driving, while others are driving all the time.”

Astrid Lindgren has always looked at the world through the eyes of a child. Through mischief and pranks, her characters try to isolate themselves from adult cruelty, indifference, and neglect. The baby lacks attention, and therefore the love of his parents - and Carlson appears. Pippi Longstocking strives to make her life and that of those around her as interesting as possible, and also always seeks justice ─ and no one can stop her from doing so, because she is the strongest and even the richest, absolutely independent. This is how Astrid Lindgren consoled and supported all children living under constant, destructive, from the writer’s point of view, pressure.

Speaking about Pippi, one cannot help but recall our Grigory Oster, his “Bad Advice” and other books that outrage adults and delight children.

How, from Astrid Lindgren's point of view, adults should react to children's pranks is especially clearly seen in her subsequent books. For example, about Emil from Lennenberg. When the surrounding residents, tired of the mischief of the rebellious boy, collect money and ask to send him to America, Emil’s mother firmly replies: “Emil is a wonderful baby, and we love him for who he is!”

True, the father does not understand the prankster and often locks him in the barn. But next to Emil there is another adult man, a “true father” who does not scold the boy and loves him unconditionally - this is the worker Alfred. Finding himself once again locked up, the curly-haired mischief softens the humiliation of punishment by carving figures from wood ─ Alfred taught! Alfred supports Emil when he, in impotent anger, raises his fist to the sky and threatens to demolish the barn so that he will never again languish for good impulses in offensive captivity.

As a result, in the finale it is Alfred who helps the best in Emil to emerge more fully.

Astrid Lindgren's contemporaries were outraged not only by her bold views on education, but also by the tenacity with which she insisted on children's defenselessness in front of adults. In the 1950s, when the war had died down and the world was licking its wounds, Swedish literature for children was dominated by an optimistic idyll. Lindgren paid tribute to this genre. For example, the book “We are all from Bullerby” is permeated with the sunny serenity of a happy childhood.

Peppilotta (Pippi for short) Longstocking proved to girls around the world that the weaker sex is in no way inferior to boys. The Swedish writer endowed her beloved heroine with heroic strength, taught her to shoot a revolver, and made her the main rich woman of the city, who is able to treat all the children with a bag of candy.

Pippi Longstocking

A girl with carrot-colored hair, in multi-colored stockings, shoes that are “too tall” and a dress made from scraps of fabric, has a rebellious character - she is not afraid of robbers and representatives of internal organs, spits on the laws of adults and teaches young readers about humanity. Pippi seems to be saying: being yourself is a great luxury and a unique pleasure.

History of creation

The red-haired girl Pippi brought her creator Astrid Lindgren world fame. Although the character appeared completely by accident - in the early 40s, the future literary star, who would later give the world the fat prankster, had a daughter, Karin, who became seriously ill. Before going to bed, Astrid invented various wonderful stories for the child, and one day she received an assignment - to tell about the life of the girl Pippi Longstocking. The daughter herself came up with the heroine’s name, and initially it sounded “Pippi,” but in the Russian translation the dissonant word was changed.

Gradually, evening after evening, Pippi began to acquire individual characteristics, and her life began to be filled with adventures. The Swedish storyteller tried to put into her stories an innovative idea that appeared at that time in terms of raising children. According to the advice of newly minted psychologists, offspring need to be given more freedom and listen to their opinions and feelings. That's why Pippi turned out to be so headstrong, flouting the rules of the adult world.

For several years, Astrid Lindgren wrapped her fantasy in evening fairy tales, until she finally decided to write down the result on paper. The stories, where a couple of other characters settled - the boy Tommy and the girl Annika, turned into a book with illustrations by the author. The manuscript flew to a major publishing house in Stockholm, where, however, it did not find any fans - Pippi Longstocking was mercilessly rejected.

Books about Pippi Longstocking

But the writer was warmly received at Raben and Schergen, publishing her first work in 1945. It was the story “Pippi settles in the Chicken Villa.” The heroine immediately became popular. Following this, two more books and several stories were born, which were bought like hot cakes.

Later, the Danish storyteller admitted that the girl bore her character traits: as a child, Astrid was the same restless inventor. In general, the character’s characterization is a horror story for adults: a 9-year-old child does what he wants, easily copes with formidable men, carries a heavy horse.

Biography and plot

Pippi Longstocking is an unusual lady, just like her biography. Once upon a time, in a small, unremarkable Swedish town, a freckled girl with red, raised braids settled in the old abandoned villa “Chicken”. She lives here without adult supervision in the company of a horse that stands on the veranda and a monkey, Mr. Nilsson. Her mother left the world when Pippi was still a baby, and her father, named Ephraim Longstocking, served as the captain of a ship that was wrecked. The man ended up on an island where the black aborigines called him their leader.

Pippi Longstocking and her monkey Mr. Nilsson

This is the legend the heroine of the Swedish fairy tale tells to her new friends, brother and sister Tommy and Annika Settergren, whom she met upon arriving in the city. Pippi inherited excellent genes from her father. The physical strength is so great that the girl drives away the policemen who came to send the orphan to an orphanage from the house. Leaves an angry bull without horns. A strongman from the circus wins at the fair. And the robbers who broke into her home are thrown onto the closet.

And Pippi Longstocking is incredibly rich, for which she also has to thank her dad. The daughter inherited a chest of gold, which the heroine happily spends. The girl does not go to school; she prefers dangerous and exciting adventures to tedious activities. Moreover, studying is no longer necessary, because Pippi is an expert in the customs of different countries of the world, which she visited with her father.

Pippi Longstocking lifts a Horse

While sleeping, the girl puts her feet on the pillow, rolls out the baking dough right on the floor, and on her birthday she not only accepts gifts, but also gives surprises to guests. Residents of the city watch in amazement as the child moves backwards when walking, because in Egypt that’s the only way they walk.

Tommy and Annika fell in love with their new friend with all their hearts, with whom it is impossible to get bored. Children constantly find themselves in funny troubles and unpleasant situations. In the evenings, together with Pippi, they make their favorite dishes - waffles, baked apples, pancakes. By the way, the red-haired girl makes great pancakes by flipping them right in the air.

Pippi Longstocking, Tommy and Annika

But one day the friends were almost separated by their father who came to pick up Pippi. The man really turned out to be the leader of the tribe of the distant island country of Veselia. And if earlier the neighbors considered the main character to be an inventor and a liar, now they immediately believed in all her fables.

In the last book from the original Lindgren trilogy, the parents sent Tommy and Annika on vacation to Veselia, where the children, in the company of the inimitable Pippi Longstocking, who became a black princess, received a scattering of unforgettable emotions.

Film adaptations

The Swedish-German serial film, which was released in 1969, is considered canonical. The name of the actress became famous throughout the world - Pippi was played believably by Inger Nilsson. The embodied image turned out to be closest to the book’s mischievous girl, and the plot differs little from the original. The film did not find love or recognition in Russia.

Inger Nilsson as Pippi Longstocking

But Soviet audiences fell in love with Pippi, who shone in a two-part musical film directed by Margarita Mikaelyan in 1984. Famous actors were involved in the production: they met on the set (Madam Rosenblum), (the swindler Blom), (Pippi’s father), and Peppilotta is played by Svetlana Stupak. The film was filled with catchy compositions (just look at “The Pirates’ Song”!) and circus tricks, which added to the film’s charm.

Svetlana Stupak as Pippi Longstocking

The role of Pippi for Svetlana Stupak was the first and last in the cinema. The girl did not pass the casting at first: the director rejected her for her blonde hair and adult appearance - Sveta did not look like a 9-year-old child. But the young actress got a second chance. The girl was asked to imagine herself as the daughter of the leader of a black tribe, to show spontaneity and enthusiasm.

Tami Erin as Pippi Longstocking

Stupak coped with the task, demonstrating to the cinema bison a stunning trick that did not require the participation of doubles. The authors of the film decided to film her, which they later regretted: Sveta’s character turned out to be even worse than the main character of the fairy tale. The director either grabbed the validol or wanted to pick up the belt.

In 1988, the red-haired beast reappeared on television screens. This time, the USA and Sweden teamed up to create the film “The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking”. Tami Erin appeared in the cinema for the first time.

Pippi Longstocking in the cartoon

The Canadian series, released at the end of the last century, became a striking animated film. Pippi's voice was provided by Melissa Altro. The directors did not take liberties and followed the literary pattern carefully created by the Swedish storyteller.

Inger Nilsson's acting career didn't work out either - the woman worked as a secretary.
In Sweden, on the island of Djurgården, a museum of fairy-tale heroes by Astrid Lindgren was built. Here you can visit Pippi Longstocking's house, where you can run, jump, climb and ride a horse named Horse.

Pippi Longstocking's House in the Astrid Lindgren Fairytale Heroes Museum

The theater stage cannot do without such a bright character. During the 2018 New Year holidays, at the capital's Cherry Orchard theater center, children are invited to the play “Pippi Longstocking,” staged in the best Vakhtangov traditions. Director Vera Annenkova promises deep content and circus entertainment.

Quotes

“My mom is an angel, and my dad is a black king. Not every child has such noble parents.”

“Grown-ups never have fun. They always have a lot of boring work, stupid dresses and cuminal taxes. And they are also stuffed with prejudices and all sorts of nonsense. They think that a terrible misfortune will happen if you put a knife in your mouth while eating, and so on.”

“Who said you have to become an adult?”

“When the heart is hot and beating strongly, it is impossible to freeze.”

“A real well-mannered lady picks her nose when no one is looking!”

Astrid Lindgren composed a fairy tale night after evening about the girl Pippi for her daughter Karin, who was ill at the time. The name for the main character, long and difficult to pronounce for a Russian person, was invented by the writer’s daughter herself.

This fairy tale turned sixty years old in 2015, and we present its summary. Pippi Longstocking, the heroine of this fantastic story, has been loved in our country since 1957.

A little about the author

Astrid Lindgren is the daughter of two Swedish farmers and grew up in a large and very friendly family. She settled the heroine of the fairy tale in a small, dull town, where life flows smoothly and nothing changes. The writer herself was an extremely active person. At her request and the support of the majority of the population, he adopted a law according to which it is forbidden to harm domestic animals. The theme of the fairy tale and its summary will be presented below. Pippi Longstocking's main characters, Annika and Tommy, will also be featured. Besides them, we also love Baby and Carlson, who were created by the world-famous writer. She received the most cherished award for every storyteller - the H.K. medal. Andersen.

What Pippi and her friends look like

Pippi is only nine years old. She is tall, thin and very strong. Her hair is bright red and glows with flame in the sun. The nose is small, potato-shaped, and covered with freckles.

Pippi walks around in stockings of different colors and huge black shoes, which she sometimes decorates. Annika and Tommy, who became friends with Pippi, are the most ordinary, neat and exemplary children who want adventure.

At the Villa "Chicken" (chapters I - XI)

Brother and sister Tommy and Annika Settergegen lived opposite an abandoned house that stood in a neglected garden. They went to school, and then, after doing their homework, played croquet in their yard. They were very bored and dreamed of having an interesting neighbor. And now their dream came true: a red-haired girl who had a monkey named Mr. Nilsson settled in the “Chicken” villa. She was brought by a real sea ship. Her mother died a long time ago and looked at her daughter from the sky, and her dad, a sea captain, was washed away by a wave during a storm, and he, as Pippi thought, became a black king on a lost island.

With the money that the sailors gave her, and it was a heavy chest with gold coins, which the girl carried like a feather, she bought herself a horse, which she settled on the terrace. This is the very beginning of a wonderful story, its summary. Pippi Longstocking is a kind, fair and extraordinary girl.

Meet Pippi

A new girl walked down the street backwards. Annika and Tommy asked her why she was doing this. “That’s how they walk in Egypt,” the strange girl lied. And she added that in India they generally walk on their hands. But Annika and Tommy were not at all embarrassed by such a lie, because it was a funny invention, and they went to visit Pippi.

She baked pancakes for her new friends and treated them to great delight, even though she broke one egg on her head. But I wasn’t confused, and immediately came up with the idea that in Brazil everyone smears eggs on their heads to make their hair grow faster. The whole fairy tale consists of such harmless stories. We will only recount a few of them, since this is a short summary. "Pippi Longstocking", a fairy tale full of various events, can be borrowed from the library.

How Pippi surprises all the townspeople

Pippi can not only tell stories, but also act very quickly and unexpectedly. A circus has come to town - it's a big event. She went to the show with Tommy and Annika. But during the performance she couldn’t sit still. Together with a circus performer, she jumped onto the back of a horse racing around the arena, then climbed under the circus dome and walked along a tightrope, she also put the strongest strongman in the world on his shoulder blades and even threw him into the air several times. They wrote about her in the newspapers, and the whole city knew what an unusual girl lived there. Only the thieves who decided to rob her did not know about this. It was a bad time for them! Pippi also saved the kids who were on the top floor of a burning house. Many adventures happen to Pippi on the pages of the book. This is just a summary of them. Pippi Longstocking is the best girl in the world.

Pippi is getting ready for the road (chapters I - VIII)

In this part of the book, Pippi managed to go to school, take part in a school excursion, and punish a bully at the fair. This unscrupulous man scattered all his sausages from the old seller. But Pippi punished the bully and made him pay for everything. And in the same part, her dear and beloved dad returned to her.

He invited her to travel the seas with him. This is a completely quick retelling of the story about Pippi and her friends, a summary of “Pippi Longstocking” chapter by chapter. But the girl will not leave Tommy and Annika in sadness; she will take them with her, with the consent of their mother, to hot countries.

On the island of the country of Veselia (chapters I - XII)

Before leaving for warmer climes, Pippi’s impudent and respectable gentleman wanted to buy her villa “Chicken” and destroy everything on it.

Pippi quickly dealt with him. She also “put in a puddle” the harmful Miss Rosenblum, who gave out gifts, boring ones by the way, to what she considered the best children. Then Pippi gathered all the offended children and gave each of them a large bag of caramel. Everyone except the evil lady was satisfied. And then Pippi, Tommy and Anika went to the country of Merry. There they swam, caught pearls, dealt with the pirates and, full of impressions, returned home. This is a completely summary of Pippi Longstocking chapter by chapter. Very briefly, because it is much more interesting to read about all the adventures yourself.