By: Astrid Lindgren Publisher: Puffin Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Puffin Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 128 Publication Date: February 24, 1977 Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pippi in the South Seas I give this book 5 stars because it is interesting, funny, and silly.
My favorite character was Pippi because she is silly and crazy. My favorite part was when Pippi and her friends were playing marbles in a cave. They were using pearls as their marbles. Two thieves came and tried to steal the pearls from the cave. Pippi thought they wanted to use them for marbles too so she told them to go to a store to get real marbles!
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes being silly.
Pippi deals with adults by speaking double-talk and changing the subject, the fantasy of children everywhere Pippi Longstocking is one of the most delightful characters to ever appear in children's books. She is a small girl with pigtails who is the only human living in her house. Her father is the king of the Pacific island of Kurrekurredutt and she lives with her animals. She has pigtails, freckles and is incredibly strong. Tommy and Annika are her friends whose parents let her play with Pippi all the time. Some people may consider the Pippi books to be inappropriate for children, since Pippi does not go to school and lives a carefree life of perpetual childhood. I don't agree with this opinion, the book is fantasy and Pippi is so full of non sequiters when she speaks that the book is clearly not to be taken seriously. In this story, Pippi's father arrives to take Pippi to visit his kingdom of Kurrekurredutt. Tommy and Annika go with her and they have many great adventures. Pearls are plentiful in the waters around the island and the children have no trouble finding enough to play games of marbles. Two evil men land on the island and try to steal the pearls away. Pippi simply throws the men out onto the rocks and then into the sea, where they swim to their boat and are never heard from again. The book is loaded with metaphors for the relationship between children and adults. Pippi simply deals with each situation with an adult by performing double-talk or changing the subject. This naturally annoys the adults, but is a natural turnaround for children. The reasons adults give to children when explaining what is happening often appears as double-talk, so this is just a reversal of roles. I enjoyed this book immensely, reading it as a fantasy where a child remains a child, and talks strangely to adults. To children, that is often what adults seem to be doing to them.
Pippi Pippi in the South Seas. Pippi is a wild girl. She likes to lift horses and only goes to school with her best friends, Tommy and Annika when the teacher is going to give presents to the smart people. The even bigger part that indicates she's "wild" is that she lives by herself in a house called Villa Vilekullu, while her father is at sea. All that changes when Pippi gets a letter from her father saying that he wants her to come to his island in which he rules. So she's off. Pippi has a couple adventures with her new native friends from the Island. In one she talks sense to a shark by saying to it "Don't you have any shame in you?"
Personally I think Pippi is funnier than Garfield, stronger than Popeye, as magical as Harry Potter, and more kind-hearted than anyone could possibly get. I recommend this book to 5 year olds (if read to), and older. * * * * *
A delightful book for anyone young at heart! This was one of my favorite books growing up, and I just reread it before sending a copy to a friend's daughter for Christmas. Pippi's irrepressible spirit and good-hearted hijinks will delight readers young and old, and remind you that you're only as old as you feel -- so feel young, arrange a question-and-answer bee and sail off to Kurrekurredutt Island in the South Seas with Pippi Longstocking! (The inhabitants of Kurrekurredutt Island are referred to as "Kurrekurredutts" in the original 1959 edition of the book, not as "cannibals" as one reviewer mentioned. And the only reference to skin color describes how Pippi and her friends tan in the South Seas sun, making no differences at all between them and their Kurrekurredutt playmates.) A delightful book to read again and again!
A Good Comedy Book I give this book four stars because it was not the best and not the worst. If you like comedy this is the perfect book for you. Pippi is a girl who goes on a boat with Captain Longstockings. But look who is having fun,Pippi herself! I recommend this book to those who like comedy. It is my type because I love comedy. I liked the way Pippi jumps off ropes. Pippi is a very adventurous girl.
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