Pippi Longstocking (novel)

Pippi Longstocking
Cover of first edition
AuthorAstrid Lindgren
Original titlePippi Långstrump
IllustratorIngrid Vang Nyman
LanguageSwedish
SeriesPippi Longstocking
GenreChildren's novel
PublisherRabén & Sjögren
Publication date
November 1945
Publication placeSweden
Media typePrint
ISBN0-14-030957-8 (Puffin Modern Classics, 1997)
OCLC2798770
LC ClassPZ7.L6585 Pi (first U.S.)[1]

Pippi Longstocking (Swedish: Pippi Långstrump) is a Swedish children's novel by writer Astrid Lindgren, published by Rabén & Sjögren with illustrations by Ingrid Vang Nyman in 1945. Translations have been published in more than 40 languages, commonly with new illustrations.

The first English language translation was published late in 1950 by The Viking Press in the United States with illustrations by Louis S. Glanzman.[2]

  1. ^ "Pippi Longstocking". LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress (lccn.loc.gov). Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  2. ^ Review of multiple new children's books, New York Herald Tribune, 12 November 1950, p. E12.