This title has been in print for over forty years and has continued to sell since that time. This title is being reissued with contemporary illustrations by best selling illustrator, Tony Ross. The explore caves and play marbles with real pearls, and the pirates and sharks they meet prove no match forPippi! Pippi Longstocking is an unforgettable, feisty, strong girl.

Pippi Longstocking and her friends, Tommy and Annika, are off on their great adventure of all a trip to Canny Canny Island, the home of Pippi’s cannibal king father. We are pleased to reissue another Pippi Longstocking book in our Oxford Children’s Modern Classics series. Since its first publication, Pippi Longstocking has sold over 40 million copies worldwide. She remembers: ‘I discovered Pippi when I was about eight years old and found her completely inspiring.’ Known and loved as the creator of some equally feisty little girls notably Clarice Bean and Lola Lauren has brought her own inimitable style to this beautifully illustrated edition of Pippi Longstocking. Astrid once commented, ‘I write to amuse the child within me, and can only hope that other children may have some fun that way, too.’ When she was growing up, Lauren Child loved Astrid Lindgren’s books. Astrid Lindgren’s children’s classic first appeared in 1945. Just like Tommy and Annika, readers are instantly charmed by her warmth and sense of fun.

Generations of children have fallen in love with Pippi Longstocking. Pippi thinks nothing of wrestling a circus strongman, dancing a polka with burglars, or tugging a bull’s tail. She would much rather spend her days arranging wild, exciting adventures to enjoy with her neighbours, Tommy and Annika, or entertaining everyone she meets with her outrageous stories. The grown ups in the village try to make Pippi behave in ways that they think a little girl should, but Pippi has other ideas.

She has just moved into Villa Villekulla where she lives all by herself with a horse, a monkey, and a big suitcase full of gold coins.

Pippi in the south seas 1948