Everyone knows Pippi Longstocking. For generations, even the youngest children have immediately identified with her independent spirit. Now, for the first time in English, comes this pictorial introduction to Pippi, who is incredibly strong and lives alone in Villa Villekulla with her horse and a monkey called Mr. Nilsson. Pippi impresses her more conventional neighbors, Tommy and Annika; she bakes cookies on the floor, performs her own act at the circus, takes on two burglars single-handedly, and has a most unusual birthday party.