Pippi Longstocking, whose amazing full name is Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint

Ephraim’s Daughter Longstocking, is a one-of-a-kind girl from a series of Swedish books written by Astrid Lindgren in the 1940s The Pippi stories were written for Lindgren’s daughter when she was home sick from school. The character of Pippi has parallels to other children’s characters, like Peter Pan, with her general “I do not want to grow up’ attitude Pippi lives in an adult-free environment with no family around, on her own in an old villa. She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on her porch, and a pet monkey named Mr. Nilsson Whether Pippi’s scrubbing her floors, doing arithmetic, or stirring things up at a fancy tea party, her flair for outrageous always seems to lead to another adventure.