Summary: "Pippi Long Stocking" - a modern fairy tale

Astrid Lindgren composed a fairy tale evening after night about the girl Pippi for her daughter Karin, who was sick at that time. The name for the main character, long and difficult to pronounce for a Russian person, was invented by the writer's daughter herself. This fairy tale in 2015 turned sixty years old, and we present its brief content. Pippi Long stocking, the heroine of this fantastic story, is loved in our country since 1957.

A little about the author

Astrid Lindgren is the daughter of two Swedish farmers and grew up in a large and very friendly family. She settled the heroine of the fairy tale in a small dreary town where life flows smoothly, and nothing changes. The writer herself was a very active person. The Swedish Parliament, at its request and support of the majority of the population, passed a law on which it is impossible to offend domestic animals. Your attention will be below the theme of the fairy tale and its brief content. Pippi Long stocking, the main characters, Annika and Tommy, will also be characterized. In addition to them, we also love Babe and Carlson, who invented the world-famous writer. She received the most treasured for each storyteller award - the medal of H.K. Andersen.

What Pippi and her friends look like

Peppy is only nine years old. She is tall, slender and very strong. Her hair is bright red and flames in the sun. Spout small, potatoes, and all covered with freckles. Pippi walks in stockings of different colors and huge black shoes, which she sometimes decorates. Annika and Tommy, who made friends with Pippi, are the most ordinary, neat and exemplary children who want adventure.

At the Villa "Chicken" (chapters I-XI)

Brother and Sister Tommy and Annika Settergegen lived opposite an abandoned house that stood in a neglected garden. They went to school, and then, after doing their homework, they played croquet in their yard. They were very bored, and they dreamed that they had an interesting neighbor. And then their dream came true: at the Villa "Chicken" settled red-haired girl, who had a monkey named Mister Nilsson. She was brought by a real sea ship. Her mother died a long time ago and looked at her daughter from the sky, and her father, the sea captain, washed away during a storm wave, and he, Peppy thought, became a Negro king on a lost island. With the money given to her by the sailors, and it was a heavy trunk with gold coins, which the girl carried like a fluff, she bought herself a horse, which she had settled on the terrace. This is the very beginning of a remarkable story, its brief content. Pippi Long stocking is a kind, fair and unusual girl.

Acquaintance with Pippi

The new girl was walking along the street with her back to the front. Annika and Tommy asked her why she did it. "So they go to Egypt," a strange girl told. And added that in India they generally walk on their hands. But Annika and Tommy did not bother with this lie, because it was a funny invention, and they went to Peppy's house. She baked to her new friends pancakes and treated them to glory, though one egg she broke on her head. But she did not lose her head, and then she came up with the idea that in Brazil, everyone smears her head with eggs, so that her hair grows faster. Of such harmless stories is the whole tale. We will only retell a few of them, as this is a summary. "Pippi long stocking," a fairy tale full of various events, you can take in the library.

How Peppy surprises all citizens

Peppy can not only tell, but also act very rapidly and unexpectedly. A circus has arrived in the city - this is a great event. Together with Tommy and Annika, she went to the show. But during the performance she was not sitting still. Together with the circus she jumped on the back of a horse racing through the arena, then climbed under the dome of the circus and walked along the rope, she also laid the strongest strongman in the world on the shoulder blades and even threw it several times in the air. They wrote about her in the newspapers, and the whole city learned how unusual the girl lives in him. About this did not know only the thieves, who decided to steal it. Badly they had to! And Pippi saved the kids who were on the top floor of the burning house. Many adventures occur with Pippi on the pages of the book. This is only their summary. Pippi Long stocking is the best girl in the world.

Peppy is going on the road (chapters I-VIII)

In this part of the book Peppi managed to go to school, take part in a school excursion, punish a bully at the fair. This unscrupulous man scattered all his sausages from the old man-seller. But Pippi punished the hooligan and made him pay everything. And in this same part her dear and beloved father returned to her. He invited her to travel on the seas. This is a very quick retelling of the story of Pippi and her friends, a short summary of Pippi's Long Stocking chapters. But the girl will not leave Tommy and Annika in anguish, she will take them with her, with the consent of their mother, in hot countries.

On the island of the country of Veselia (chapters I-XII)

Before leaving for warmer lands at Pippi, the cheeky and respectable gentleman wanted to buy her villa "Chicken" and destroy everything on it. Peppy quickly dealt with him. She also "put in a puddle" the harmful Frechen Rosenblum, who distributed gifts, by the way, boring, the best, as she thought, children. Then Pippi gathered all the offended children and presented each with a large bag of caramel. All but the spiteful freken were pleased. And then Pippi, Tommy and Anika went to the country of Veselia. There they fought, caught pearls, dealt with pirates and, full of impressions, returned home. This is a very brief summary of the "Pippi Long Stocking" by chapters. Very briefly, because it is much more interesting to read about all the adventures yourself.

Reviews

All parents who have children 4-5 years old are assured that children are delighted with stories about a girl who does everything on the contrary. They almost memorize her adventures by heart, very much like the illustrations and quality of the publication. We hope that those who are not familiar with the fantastic girl who sleeps on the pillow will be interested in the short content of "Pippi Long Stocking". The reviews say that children are asking to reread the book again and again.