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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
Petite fille, j'adorais la série télévisée de Fifi Brindacier. C'est lorsque j'ai vu ce livre sur le plan de cours d'Histoire de la littérature jeunesse que j'ai décidé de m'y inscrire. Et je n'ai pas été déçue par ma lecture! Fifi est une petite fille brillante et forte qui n'a peur de personne et ne se soucie pas du tout des codes sociaux et moraux. En un sens, elle m'a fait penser à une autre version d'Anne Shirley, plus jeune et encore plus en contradiction avec le monde adulte.
Avec ses illustrations, ses grands caractères et son petit nombre de pages, c'est une lecture légère et rigolote: l'affaire d'une heure (ou deux)!
Avec ses illustrations, ses grands caractères et son petit nombre de pages, c'est une lecture légère et rigolote: l'affaire d'une heure (ou deux)!
I first read this in 1978, and I loved it. Just reread it; and while I still love Pipp, the story didn't excite me the same way it did when I was a kid.
So my children really liked this, but it was too bizarre and random. I had to keep skipping over these strange sections where Pippi is describing going to different countries and what she sees the locals doing (eg I went to India and everyone walks on their hands...in Venezuela they only do _____). Just felt it was simpler to not have to try to explain why Pippi is saying these things, why they aren't true, and no, I don't know why the author included them.
Pippi Langkous, ofwel Pippi Långstrump in het Zweeds (voor de volledigheid: Pippilotta Viktualia Rullgardina Krusmynta Efraimsdotter Långstrump), wie kent haar niet? Als kind heb ik alle verhalen verslonden, de TV series gezien. Ik had zelfs LP's die ik op mijn platendraaiertje speelde en zong luidkeels alle liedjes mee. En ik was fan. Grote fan. In het Nederlands.
Nu ik al vier jaar Zweeds studeer lijkt het méér dan tijd om Astrid Lindgren de eer toe te kennen die haar toekomt en haar werk in de originele taal te lezen. Na "Bröderna Lejonhjärta" vorig jaar, is Pippi Långstrump nu aan de beurt. Een leuk weetje is dat deze verhalen hun oorsprong vinden in verhaaltjes die Lindgren aan haar dochtertje Karin vertelde toen zij wegens een longontsteking bedlegerig was. De verhaaltjes sloegen zo aan, dat Lindgren besloot om ze op papier te vereeuwigen. En met overweldigend succes, getuige daarvan de vele boeken, in massa's talen vertaald, de TV-series en de film.
Het is dus geen verrassing dat ik enorm genoten heb van "Pippi Långstrump" in het Zweeds. Amper 138 bladzijden lang, en uiteraard een kinderboek, maar één dat tot de verbeelding blijft spreken. De knotsgekke meid met roste vlechten, sproetjes en verschillende sokken die alleen woont in Villa Kakelbont samen met een aapje en die de zotste avonturen meemaakt kan niet anders dan garant staan voor leesplezier, zelfs voor volwassenen.
Jätterolig bok, full av fantasi! Underhållande och väl skriven.
Nu ik al vier jaar Zweeds studeer lijkt het méér dan tijd om Astrid Lindgren de eer toe te kennen die haar toekomt en haar werk in de originele taal te lezen. Na "Bröderna Lejonhjärta" vorig jaar, is Pippi Långstrump nu aan de beurt. Een leuk weetje is dat deze verhalen hun oorsprong vinden in verhaaltjes die Lindgren aan haar dochtertje Karin vertelde toen zij wegens een longontsteking bedlegerig was. De verhaaltjes sloegen zo aan, dat Lindgren besloot om ze op papier te vereeuwigen. En met overweldigend succes, getuige daarvan de vele boeken, in massa's talen vertaald, de TV-series en de film.
Het is dus geen verrassing dat ik enorm genoten heb van "Pippi Långstrump" in het Zweeds. Amper 138 bladzijden lang, en uiteraard een kinderboek, maar één dat tot de verbeelding blijft spreken. De knotsgekke meid met roste vlechten, sproetjes en verschillende sokken die alleen woont in Villa Kakelbont samen met een aapje en die de zotste avonturen meemaakt kan niet anders dan garant staan voor leesplezier, zelfs voor volwassenen.
Jätterolig bok, full av fantasi! Underhållande och väl skriven.
The kids did not find Pippi funny so much as stupid--a word I do not approve of them saying but that they vehemently used for her. I agreed and couldn't find much entertainment in the book either.
One of my favorite book series as a child. Even went as Pippi one Halloween. My mom had so much fun (lol) trying to get my braids to stick straight out!
3.5 stars?
I recently listened to the Overdue podcast episode about this book, knowing it was on my list for this year but not sure exactly when I would get to it. Andrew ended up settling on Pippi being some sort of Greek-esque god come down to earth in the body of a 9-year-old girl, and I think he may be onto something there.
I grew up watching The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking as a kid, so reading this book was probably always something I meant to do but never got around to.
The Pippi movie I grew up with has slightly older kids in it - Tami Erin was about 14 when she was in the role - and I think that somehow lent more credibility to her disregard for adults and ability to take care of herself. I realize this isn't explicitly logical, but it feels right.
After finishing this book, I looked up the trailer and some clips from the Swedish 70s movie staring Inger Nilsson and it just felt very awkward. I also found a terrifying version of the "Shirley Temple's Storybook" Pippi Longstocking (in addition to their version of Winnie the Pooh -- yikes) and I don't know if it's the early 60s acting or the plot that makes me uncomfortable.
That was a lot of words to say that after reading this, I am somehow less sure why Pippi became such a phenomenon (and, yet again, I realize this is not a logical conclusion).
The stories in here are cute, in a way (though as an adult I definitely had a moment of "hey, you little shithead, stop ruining things for other people!") but all of the screen adaptations give me weird secondhand embarrassment for reasons I'm unclear of, especially since one of them is a childhood favorite of mine.
Maybe it's because it feels like there should be many more Pippi-focused books than there are for her to become such a household name. Now looking it up, it appears that there are a zillion spinoffs, but the primary source seems to be this book.
I don't know what the point is that I am (poorly) trying to make. I guess that it's kind of wild to me that a 160-page Swedish book about a superhuman girl reached such worldwide popularity in a time long-before the internet?
It's a fun read, but somehow has me questioning things I never would have thought to before, which is not what I anticipated. *insert shrug emoji here*
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ATY 2021: #26 - A short book (<210 pages) by a new-to-you author
I recently listened to the Overdue podcast episode about this book, knowing it was on my list for this year but not sure exactly when I would get to it. Andrew ended up settling on Pippi being some sort of Greek-esque god come down to earth in the body of a 9-year-old girl, and I think he may be onto something there.
I grew up watching The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking as a kid, so reading this book was probably always something I meant to do but never got around to.
The Pippi movie I grew up with has slightly older kids in it - Tami Erin was about 14 when she was in the role - and I think that somehow lent more credibility to her disregard for adults and ability to take care of herself. I realize this isn't explicitly logical, but it feels right.
After finishing this book, I looked up the trailer and some clips from the Swedish 70s movie staring Inger Nilsson and it just felt very awkward. I also found a terrifying version of the "Shirley Temple's Storybook" Pippi Longstocking (in addition to their version of Winnie the Pooh -- yikes) and I don't know if it's the early 60s acting or the plot that makes me uncomfortable.
That was a lot of words to say that after reading this, I am somehow less sure why Pippi became such a phenomenon (and, yet again, I realize this is not a logical conclusion).
The stories in here are cute, in a way (though as an adult I definitely had a moment of "hey, you little shithead, stop ruining things for other people!") but all of the screen adaptations give me weird secondhand embarrassment for reasons I'm unclear of, especially since one of them is a childhood favorite of mine.
Maybe it's because it feels like there should be many more Pippi-focused books than there are for her to become such a household name. Now looking it up, it appears that there are a zillion spinoffs, but the primary source seems to be this book.
I don't know what the point is that I am (poorly) trying to make. I guess that it's kind of wild to me that a 160-page Swedish book about a superhuman girl reached such worldwide popularity in a time long-before the internet?
It's a fun read, but somehow has me questioning things I never would have thought to before, which is not what I anticipated. *insert shrug emoji here*
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ATY 2021: #26 - A short book (<210 pages) by a new-to-you author