The first five German publishers who were offered "Pippi Longstocking" turned it down, but the sixth wanted to take it. Soon, "Pippi" spread to Norway, Finland, and Denmark. Lindgren went to work for them as an editor who helped to discover other up-and-coming children's writers. The same year that Rabén & Sjögren published the second Pippi book, Mrs. "Pippi Goes on Board" came out in 1946 and "Pippi in the South Seas" followed in 1948. The original Pippi stories appeared as a set of three chapter books. "No normal child would lift a horse with one arm either: but if you can do one, you can probably do the other as well," she wrote later. "No normal child would ever eat an entire cake at a coffee party!" complained a grown-up reader to Mrs. "Pippi Longstocking" was published in 1945 and became a hit with Swedish children, although some adults worried that Pippi would be a bad role model. She revised what she had written and submitted it to a children's-book competition at a smaller publisher called Rabén & Sjögren. She had wanted the manuscript to be a gift for Karin's 10th birthday, but she also sent it to a large publishing company. It wasn't until a few years later that she finally put them on paper. Lindgren told the stories regularly at bedtime, she didn't even bother writing them down. Pippi was a hit in the Lindgren household, but although Mrs. Pippi lived happily on her own, taking care of bullies, pompous adults, and robbers with her superhuman strength, humor, and good nature. Nilsson, and her horse, Old Man, but no grown-ups.
This child lived in a house called Villa Villekula with her monkey, Mr. Lindgren came up with a character she thought fitted the funny name – an adventurous 9-year-old with braided red hair that stuck straight out on either side of her head. When Mom wanted to know what the tale should be about, Karin made up a name. One day when she wasn't feeling well, Karin Lindgren asked her mother, Astrid Lindgren, to tell her a story. Have you read about her adventures? Did you ever wonder how this wacky character reached superstardom? Well, it all started with one real-life girl. Pippi Longstocking, with her wild hair and outrageous antics, has been delighting kids across the globe for more than 60 years.
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