tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23668207.post5264414427917128255..comments2024-02-24T19:53:29.491-05:00Comments on Bad Girl Blog: Pippi Longstocking RulesJoyce Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03118325396178171635noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23668207.post-61555312681343387102010-04-08T12:25:55.034-04:002010-04-08T12:25:55.034-04:00Pippi longstocking is the best. I was her for hal...Pippi longstocking is the best. I was her for halloween one year and for an entire summer I wore my hair in braids and my mother would pin them up for me. She was my idol growing up!<br /><br />http://ivyandhaley.blogspot.com<br /><br />IvyIvy and Haleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01335952216200416563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23668207.post-88533385181066190452010-03-11T17:19:40.993-05:002010-03-11T17:19:40.993-05:00Wow, Pippi's creator really was a Bad Girl. He...Wow, Pippi's creator really was a Bad Girl. Here's what a Telegraph article about her says:<br /><br />"There's something sweet about Pippi's rise that mirrors Lindgren's life. The farmer's daughter from Vimmerby was a "bad girl" who became a national heroine. Lindgren was a teenage flapper in the 1920s and the first in town to bob her hair; at 17 she was a thoroughly modern career girl – a cub reporter on the local paper.<br /><br />"Then she fell pregnant and fulfilled the worst expectations of conservative Sweden – an unmarried teenage mother.<br /><br />"But she had her baby, and she kept him. She placed Lars with a foster family in Denmark where she could snatch time from earning a living in Stockholm to visit him often, and where he'd be safe from Sweden's notorious child welfare committees who might have left him to fester in a home.<br /><br />"When she married six years later she reclaimed Lars. She gave birth to her second child, Karin, in 1934."<br /><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3668234/Pippi-Longstocking-the-Swedish-superhero.htmlJoyce Hansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03118325396178171635noreply@blogger.com