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When I was a girl I spent nearly every summer with my grandparents in Iowa. I loved those two humans more than any others I have ever met. They were wonderful. We did many things together -- concerts, amusement parks, swimming pools, camping. And, one day they took me to see a funny, sassy, spunky girl named Pippi Longstocking. I will never forget how enchanted I was by the idea of a child living alone, caring for animals and walking the widow's peak of her home to watch for her father's ship. B
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Jan 01, 2011
Charles
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The main message is daring to be different, be independent, don't be afraid, don't care about what other people think. If I had to borrow Steve Jobs's quote, “Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?” Maybe Steve Jobs read Pippi Longstocking too. It's a good message for kids, but at the same time, it could be annoying and obnoxious if you take it too far, which I found Pippi to be in many occasions.
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Unique, astonishing, and brilliant. Lindgren understood a few key things about childhood, or childlike-ness, and she understood them so clearly that they rolled out like a brash, tuneless song on a sunny afternoon. Effortless excellence.
I should have read this as a child.
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