PIPPI LONGSTOCKING

PIPPI LONGSTOCKING THE STRONGEST IN THE WORLD!

ASTRID LINDGREN, INGRID VANG NYMAN, TIINA NUNNALLY

Celebrate the seventieth anniversary of Pippi! 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.

ASTRID LINDGREN, INGRID VANG NYMAN, TIINA NUNNALLY

Astrid Lindgren (1902-2002) 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 children's book illustrator, as well as the original illustrator of the Pippi chapter books.