MUSEUM OF MODERN MYTHOLOGY AND POP CULTURE

PIPPI LONGSTOCKING

1945. The wild adventures of the strongest person on earth (a nine year old girl) appeared in the children's novel Pippi Longstocking. Pippi's creator, Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002), was born in southern Sweden, and wrote several other Pippi adventures. Pippi has no parents, and her stepfather is a pirate, which makes her wealthy enough to travel the world. Between 1969 and 1973, Inger Nilsson portrayed Pippi in a series of movies from Sweden. In 1988 an English language film was released; in the 1990s a twenty-six part animated series appeared, and in 2001 The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking hit the screens. Pippi Longstocking represents the untapped potential of children by showing adults how comical their restrictions and imposed norms are. She explodes the concept of children's helplessness by achieving goals their parents tell them are impossible.

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