![]() I don't think she had an inkling that this was, in fact, quite an old book. ![]() ![]() My local bookshop, Simply Books, lets some of its young customers review books for them, and the little girl who read the new Pippi was very taken by it. After all, there are new readers out there, who will most likely be given the book by nostalgic parents or grandparents. So perhaps it is all right to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Astrid Lindgren with a big new Pippi Longstocking edition. The collage-style illustrations do suit the story very well, and they have a rather nice 50s feel to them. The mere thought that Lauren Child should be allowed (!) to mess with Pippi was upsetting at first, but now that I've read the new book I'm quite impressed. I used to study them at length, and these pictures really ARE Pippi to most Swedes. ![]() As a child in Sweden I grew up with the black and orange drawings by Ingrid Vang Nyman, and with a few extremely colourful double page illustrations. ![]()
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