Cover of Pippi Longstocking.

Pippi Longstocking

author:	Astrid Lindgren (1945)
date read:	2001-11-01
pages:	140
lists:	german , kids , trickster
rating:	★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Joyful is what this book is. Thoroughly joyful, and I’d love to blame it for my anarchist tendencies (but that would probably be unfair).

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