Astrid Lindgren

These personal diaries by the author of Pippi Longstocking chronicle her experiences in Europe during WWII and her astute observations of the conflict. Before she became internationally known for her Pippi Longstocking books, Astrid Lindgren was an aspiring author living in Stockholm with her family at the outbreak of the Second World War. The diaries she kept throughout the hostilities offer her unique perspective, as a civilian, a mother, and an...

The adventures of the strongest girl in the world, who takes her two friends with her when she travels from Sweden to visit her father, king of an island in the South Seas.

On a cold, snowy night, a Swedish troll walks around a farm comforting the animals with the promise that spring will come.

The noisy children of three neighboring families have a gay time at Christmas baking cookies, cutting and decorating trees, eating fruitcake and tarts, and opening Christmas gifts.

Life in their rented summer cottage on Seacrow Island is sometimes happy, sometimes exciting, and sometimes tragic, but never uneventful for a Swedish author, his three sons, and nineteen-year-old daughter.

The author of Pippi Longstocking tells the story of her own childhood--six boisterous kids who find adventure and fun around their home, Noisy Village.

A collection of holiday stories. Adaptations of award-winning children's picture books.