outrageous pippi longstocking has no parents around and no rules to follow so she lives according to her own daredevilish ways shes been treating her friends tommy and annika to wild adventures toolike buying and eating seventytwo pounds of candy or sailing off to an island in the middle of a lake to see what its like to be shipwrecked but then pippis long lost father returns and she might have to leave villa villekullafrom the hans christian andersen medalwinning author of the classic pippi longstocking this is another rollicking adventure thats sure to please fans of the freckled funloving little girllovers of pippi longstocking will welcome this rollicking tale of a topsyturvy world in which pippi and her nextdoor neighbors put into practice some ideas about good times school library journal