Pippi Longstocking Goes Aboard

Astrid Lindgren (author), Mini Grey (illustrator)

Loved by millions of children around the world Pippi Longstocking is one of the most popular children's characters of all time. This new edition of the classic Pippi story by Astrid Lindgren, contains brand new black and white artwork by award-winning illustrator Mini Grey, introducing Pippi's adventurous spirit to a whole new generation of readers. In Pippi Goes Aboard, Pippi Longstocking is back and as crazy and as funny as ever! But for Tommy and Annika, the fun might stop all too soon if Pippi agrees to go back to sea with her father.

Astrid Lindgren was born in 1907, and grew up at a farm in the south of Sweden. She began her writing career in 1944 after she won a children's book competition, with Pippi Longstocking published a year later.

She wrote 34 chapter books and 41 picture books, that all together have sold a staggering 170 million copies and been translated into more than 100 languages.

Astrid Lindgren died in 2002.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ OUP Oxford (7 May 2020)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780192776327
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.8 x 1 x 19.6 cm