Also on this DVD is a second documentary, “Mina’s Recipe Book, Terezin 1944,” about one woman’s collection of recipes created in a Nazi camp. The book survived but she didn’t.

In 1926, Astrid Lindgren moved to Stockholm where she lived the rest of her life, working first as a stenographer, then as a writer and publisher. Her debut as an author came late, at age 38.

Childhood upheavals Lindgren, then Astrid Ericsson, began her writing career at a local newspaper as a teenager, and the extracts from her first published work are impressively witty and confident.