Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red-haired Longstocking is the main character in the eponymous series of children’s books by celebrated Swedish author Lindgren.

The creator of such popular children’s series as Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof and the Six Bullerby Children, Sweden’s Astrid Lindgren, whose stories have been the ...

The Pippi Longstocking series began through a trio of children’s chapter books published by Lindgren in the 1940s, which spun out into subsequent short stories and picture books. The franchise has ...