Astrid Lindgren, Author, Marit Trnqvist, Illustrator Arthur A. Levine Books $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-439-62796-2 Marit Tarnqvist reimagines Astrid Lindgren's wistful tale of two children ""left alone ...

Popular Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, creator of the freckle-faced, free-spirited Pippi Longstocking, died on Monday at the age of 94. Reaching into her childhood memories of the Swedish countryside ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) _ Popular children’s writer Astrid Lindgren, creator of the braided, freethinking Pippi Longstocking, died Monday. She was 94. Reaching into her childhood memories of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film from director Wilfried Hauke tells the story of Lindgren’s “young years during World War II through her own diaries in a ...

In 1945, the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren invented Pippi Longstocking - and broke the mould of children's literature. Lindgren, who has died aged 94, conjured up a heroine who was morally and ...

Astrid Lindgren spent many summers on the island of Furusund, and she wrote many of her books there. In her 70s and 80s, when she had already become an icon in Sweden and was receiving piles of ...

A hundred years ago, on 14 November 1907, Astrid Lindgren was born on a small farm in south-central Sweden. When she died at age 95, she had long achieved worldwide renown as the author of books for ...

These 1939-45 diaries from the Swedish children’s author, which feature roast reindeer and sorrow across Europe, are oddly cheering The Swedish children’s author Astrid Lindgren will be forever linked ...

She’s the strongest girl in the world. With her carrot-coloured pigtails, her striped mismatched socks and her freckles, she’s instantly recognisable. She’s a financially independent child, a reckless ...

Astrid Lindgren, the Swedish writer whose rollicking, anarchic books about Pippi Longstocking rattled some tradition-bound Swedes when they first appeared almost 60 years ago but came to captivate ...

ASTRID LINDGREN, who has died aged 94, was a hugely popular children's author, best known as the creator of the headstrong ragamuffin Pippi Longstocking. As a young girl confined to bed with pneumonia ...