![]() ![]() Children know that Pippi is doing wrong when she drinks lemonade out of a jug at a garden party. Perhaps the critics and censors, being adults, took Pippi a little too seriously. ‘Pippi-worship has turned everything upside down, in schools, in family life and in terms of normal behaviour,’ the commentator wrote in a leading Swedish daily. So it is not strange that the anti-authoritarian Pippi is censored in some dictatorships and conservative states, and that she has aroused the fury of many adults.Ī Swedish social commentator once argued that the ‘Pippi cult’ had had a highly detrimental effect on both school children and pre-school children in Sweden. In her storybook world, she has saved children from adult laws, provided them with unlimited amounts of fizzy drink, and she's stood up for the weak and oppressed. ![]() Pippi Longstocking is a girl rebel, who has inspired children all over the globe since 1945. She is both cheeky and kind, she can carry a horse and she can outlift the strongest man in the world, Mighty Adolph. She can shoot a revolver and sail on the seven seas. She is financially independent since she owns a sackful of gold pieces. Photo: Lena Granefelt/ Children's character Pippi Longstocking is a girl rebel and gender role model.Īstrid Lindgren's children character Pippi Longstocking is in truth an unusual young girl. ![]()
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