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Pippi Longstocking: The Strongest in the World!

AUTHOR Vang Nyman, Ingrid; Lindgren, Astrid; Nunnally, Tiina
PUBLISHER Drawn & Quarterly (10/20/2015)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)

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Celebrate the seventieth anniversary of Pippi!

Who can rescue babies from a burning building, outwit burglars, overpower a circus strongman, and still get home in time for Christmas? Pippi Longstocking can! Pippi Longstocking: The Strongest in the World! collects more than one hundred pages of comics from Pippi's creator, Astrid Lindgren, and her collaborator, the illustrator Ingrid Vang Nyman.
Unearthed by D+Q and republished between 2011 and 2014, these mid-century comics had never before been seen by North American audiences. Pippi Longstocking: The Strongest in the World! is a fitting tribute to one of the world's most beloved fictional characters.

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ISBN-13: 9781770462151
ISBN-10: 1770462155
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 160
Carton Quantity: 32
Product Dimensions: 6.00 x 0.60 x 8.00 inches
Weight: 0.80 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Price on Product, Ikids, Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
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Juvenile Fiction | Comics & Graphic Novels - General
Grade Level: 3rd Grade - 6th Grade
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 0
Point Value: 0
Guided Reading Level: Not Applicable
Dewey Decimal: FIC
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Celebrate the seventieth anniversary of Pippi!

Who can rescue babies from a burning building, outwit burglars, overpower a circus strongman, and still get home in time for Christmas? Pippi Longstocking can! Pippi Longstocking: The Strongest in the World! collects more than one hundred pages of comics from Pippi's creator, Astrid Lindgren, and her collaborator, the illustrator Ingrid Vang Nyman.
Unearthed by D+Q and republished between 2011 and 2014, these mid-century comics had never before been seen by North American audiences. Pippi Longstocking: The Strongest in the World! is a fitting tribute to one of the world's most beloved fictional characters.

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Author: Vang Nyman, Ingrid
Ingrid Nyman (1916--39) illustrated a number of Astrid Lindgren's books and was the first to illustrate Pippi.
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Translator: Nunnally, Tiina
Jens Peter Jacobsen (18471885) made his literary debut with the novella "Mogens" in 1872. Diagnosed with advanced tuberculosis two years later, he completed several more short stories and two novels.

Tiina Nunnally is the award-winning translator of numerous works of Scandinavian literature, including "Kristin Lavransdatter" (winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize).

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