Astrid Ericsson Lindgren, the self-described “mother” of freckled Pippi Longstocking whose prodigious writing includes some 115 books, a dozen plays, two dozen screenplays, plus songs and ...

Paddington duo Studiocanal and David Heyman are teaming with the Astrid Lindgren Company to develop a movie based on the classic Pippi Longstocking story. Jeffrey Clifford and Rosie Alison will ...

This year marks the 75th anniversary of Pippi Longstocking, the most popular character of Swedish author and activist Astrid Lindgren. Harriet Marsden speaks to Lindgren’s family, fans – and ...

The Swedish author Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) is beloved around the world for her best-selling children’s books (most notably “ Pippi Longstocking ”), but “Becoming Astrid” doesn’t ...

Music Box Films has picked up U.S. rights to Becoming Astrid, Pernille Fischer Christensen’s biopic about Swedish children’s writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of Pippi Longstocking.

The reading from Pippi in the South Seas, is by Suzette Williams. The reading and interview with Astrid Lindgren were first broadcast on The Science Show in April 1991.

Children’s writer Astrid Lindgren, creator of magical, irrepressible — and much-filmed — delinquent Pippi Longstocking, died Monday Jan. 28 in her sleep in her longtime Stockholm apartment ...

You do not need to be a fan of the books to enjoy this film, though. “Becoming Astrid” is not the story of how "Pippi Longstocking" was written or Astrid Lindgren’s rise to fame.

In 1944, Astrid Lindgren presented Karin with a special 10th birthday gift: a typed and bound version of the adventures of Pippi Longstocking.

” ‘Pippi Goes on Board’ by Astrid Lindgren is about a little girl who does things by herself. Pippi doesn’t have a mother because her mother died when she was young.