4,5 SternePippi Langstrumpf - wer kennt sie nicht? Ein zeitloses Kinderbuch, das immer wieder Spaß macht. Pippi ist einfach einzigartig.Eigentlich ist ihre Geschichte ziemlich traurig. Die Mutter ist ein Engel, der Vater ein Südseekönig - wie sie immer sagt. Heißt, Pippi ist eigentlich ganz alleine. Bis auf ihren kleinen Affen und ihr Pferd natürlich :)Obwohl die Hintergrundgeschichte von Pippi sehr traurig ist, ist die neunjährige Pippi fröhlich, neugierig, bärenstark und abenteuerlustig.Ich gl...

بعد از ماتیلدا، که دخترها عاشقش شدن، این رو شروع کردم براشون خوندن. طنز ماتیلدا با دعوا و خشونت همراهه. مدیر و پدر و مادر ماتیلدا دعواش می‌کنن و این دعواها به فضای کمیک کشیده می‌شه. اما طنز پی‌پی، حداقل تا اینجا متفاوته. طنز پی‌پی به خاطر خل‌وچل بازی‌های پی‌پیه. مثلاً فصل اول پی‌پی پنکیک درست می‌کنه و کل آشپزخونه رو کثیف می‌کنه. این تیکه رو همزمان با خوندن، برای بچه‌ها اجرا می‌کردم و ریسه می‌رفتن از خنده. به نظرم شخصیت پی‌پی براشون دوست‌داشتنی‌تر از ماتیلدا باشه. باید دید.بعد نوشت:خب این کتاب تم...

Back in 1957, my Mom's village library opened to a steady stream of visitors. One of my Mom's favourite strategies (probably at the direction of her Library Board, though at that time it was her own pet project too) was to provide our town with a plethora of kid's books.It was the Baby Boom. Kids were everywhere, even though our typical town's size at first was small. As the birth rate increased, so did the need for entertainment to keep the kids happy, and few of us had a TV in the mid fifties....

Book 20 of 30 for my 30 day reading challenge.

[Original review, Sep 4 2018]I'm trying to improve my miserable Italian, and when we were in Italy a couple of weeks ago I bought a bunch of children's books, intending to use my normal method of just reading them without a dictionary and picking things up. So far, it's working well. I loved Il Mago di Oz, and this one was also very enjoyable. I think I'd read about two-third of the episodes previously in Swedish or German, but some of them were new.Reading in a language you're not familiar with...

I'm in bed - again -today with some type of nasty bug - a relapse from last week...a traveling flu bug? cold? allergies? It's now in my chest...Right when I'm reading the interview on Goodreads from Fredrick Backman about his new-HIT- novel BEARTOWN - my doorbell rings. A delivery guy brought a huge vase of flowers from our daughter, Katy. Tomorrow is Mother's Day! (sweet daughter)Paul got the door - brought the flowers to the nightstand next to my bed. I told Paul what I had just read about Fre...

Since I love Scandinavian authors and review many Swedish and Norwegian novels, I'm often asked what the best language is if you're planning to read one in translation. It's early days yet, but I'm starting to feel more and more certain that the answer is German. Just like Komet im Mumintal , which I read last year, Pippi Langstrumpf was an absolute winner and felt 100% authentic. It was exactly like reading it in Swedish: the melody of the sentences was the same, the word-play was the same, ...

I think Swedish schools today are far too influenced by Astrid Lindgren's most famous character! There is not a single person in this country who doesn't know the story of how Pippi Långstrump started school. Her friends Tommy and Annika told her that they get to have a "Christmas break", and Pippi, always staying home on her own, and therefore not entitled to a "break", thinks that is unfair. "Orättvist" is by far the word I hear most often in my conversations with Swedish adolescents, and it ...

Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking (originally published in Swedish as Pippi Långstrump in 1945) is likely one of the most well-known and famous Swedish children's books of all time; it has been translated into more than 50 languages and is even today globally beloved and admired. And the original concept for Pippi Långstrump originated in 1944, when Astrid Lindgren's then seven year old daughter was ill with pneumonia and Lindgren told her imaginative stories about a fantastical and mischievo...

I used to feel connected to Pippi as a kid. Because I had red/orange hair ;-) I was even called Pippi Langkous (the Dutch translation) sometimes then.. I swear I have this photo of myself as a kid, spitting image then, now my hair is white/orange mixed, I'm sure Pippi would have the same as an older and still eccentric lady? :-) I remember my mother, when I was a little kid, used to deck me out in a two piece suit, skirt and jacket and top it off with red stockings. I really used to hate that, d...