Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi in the South Seas (1959) Trans. Gerry Bothmer Illus. Louis S. Glanzman Pippi kicks ass. Really. She stands out. Sure, a lot of the heroines I’ve been spending time with this summer are spunky. S’why I liked them. Whether it was Ramoma adding whiskers and a tail
Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Goes on Board (1946) Trans. Florence Laborn Illus. Louis S. Glanzman Viking Press, 1957 Here’s how our heroine introduces herself: “My name’s Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Efraim’s Daughter Longstocking, daughter of Captain Edraim Longstocking, formerly the Terror of the Sea, now a cannibal King. But everybody calls me Pippi.”
Sydney Taylor's Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family (1978) Illus. Meryl Rosner This (and the third) volumes of Sydney Taylor's series are stories that I've come to for the first time as an adult reader. Which was fine with the third volume: I think I enjoyed it as much as I would
Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown (1958). Illus. Mary Stevens NY: Dell Publishing, 1968. Even though it's the fourth, rather than the first, this is the volume of Sydney Taylor's series that I re-read most often. (Actually, I never read either the third or the fifth/final volumes until now; I didn't
Sydney Taylor's More All-of-a-Kind Family (1954) Dell Publishing, 1967 The third volume in Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family series is everything that is promised in the title: More. More years for the children, who now range in age as follows: Ella, 15; Henriette (Henny), 13; Sarah, 11; Charlotte, 9; Gertie, 7; and Charlie,
