Pipii Longstocking
The Strongest in the World!
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
5 November 2015
Summary
Who can rescue babies from a burning building, outwit burglars, overpower a circus strongman, and still get home in time for Christmas? Pippi Longstocking can! Pippi Longstocking: The Strongest in the World! collects more than one hundred pages of comics from Pippi’s creator, Astrid Lindgren, and her collaborator, the illustrator Ingrid Vang Nyman. Unearthed by D+Q and republished between 2011 and 2014, these mid-century comics had never before been seen by North American audiences. Pippi Longstocking: The Strongest in the World! is a fitting tribute to one of the world’s most beloved fictional characters
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770462151 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770462155 |
| Author: | Astrid Lindgren, Ingrid Van Nyman |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 5 November 2015 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 191mm x 241mm |
| Audience Age: | 8-11 |
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Critics Review
Wonderfully offbeat Pippi Longstocking comics … Buy a copy for your kids, but secretly read it when they’re asleep.
“Relying on bold blocks of color and bright, simple designs, [Pippi Moves In is] mid-century art at its finest.” –The Paris Review on the Pippi books
“Wonderfully offbeat Pippi Longstocking comics … Buy a copy for your kids, but secretly read it when they’re asleep.” –USA Today Pop Candy on the Pippi books
Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) was the creator of one of Sweden’s most iconic fictional characters, Pippi Longstocking. The Pippi books have been translated into more than sixty languages. Ingrid Vang Nyman (1916-1959) was a noted Danish children’s book illustrator, as well as the original illustrator of the Pippi chapter books.
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