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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
In the South Seas with Pippi, May 11, 2009
A Kid's Review
Pippi in the South Seas is a book with excitement and adventures popping up in every chapter. Pippi is a girl with amazing strength, but not manners. Her friends Tommy and Annika, live next door to Pippi's house, Villa Villekula, where she lives alone. Her father is a king of a remote island, and her mother is dead. Pippi does not go to school; she doesn't even have a job! Pippi lives off of her piles of gold around her house. The main adventure in this book comes with a letter. The letter is from Pippi's father asking her to come to his island. Ofcourse, she says yes. Tommy and Annika are distraught at the thought of Pippi leaving for so long, maybe even forever! Pippi gets permission from their parents to let them go. Tommy and Annika are so happy they get to go to the island with Pippi. When they get to the island they have tremendous amounts of fun, but also they have to fight burglars and sharks. Tommy, Pippi, and Annika are having lots of fun, but they are missing their home. Will Pippi and her friends ever return, or will they stay on the island forever? Read the book and use the Paces study guide to understand it. When I read this book I found this guide very helpful with its vocabulary, discussion, homework, and journals. The journals make you think about the events and understand them better. All in all, I think that this and the study guide is a very smart choice for a gift or just for yourself. Be prepared for adventures when you read Pippi in the South Seas.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A delightful book for anyone young at heart!, December 6, 2002
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!
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
IRREPRESSIBLE NORDIC PIXIE!, June 20, 1998
By A Customer
This red-headed little rascal has charmed young readers all over the world with her high-spirited antics. Pippi Longstocking--only child of Captain Longstocking--is a freckle-faced little girl whose whose flaming braids stick out from her head as if starched! This in itself would make her somewhat unique in Scandinavia, I should think. But our heroine considers herself nearly perfect, as do most of the children she encounters. Self-sufficient, undaunted, and unflappable, Pippi amazes all comers with her outlandish skills: the abiltiy to "debate" and refute adult logic. And don't mess with this mini-mite: she possesses prodigious strength--she can easily heft her horse or toss two grown men around. You see, Pippi is the sole human occupant (and interior decorator) of Villa Villekulla, which boats its own signpost in the town center for curious tourists. While Captain Longstocking is off ruling his distant island somewhere in the South Seas, his spunky daughter entertains as an unconventional hostess in her ramshackle home. Her only residential companions are Mr. Nilsson (a monkey) and of course, the horse (no name) who hangs out on the front porch. As a captain's daughter, Pippi is a natural at the helm. Her best friends (more like normal kids with casual parents) are Tommy (why does the boy always get mentioned first?) and Annika next door, who delight in her company and are entranced with her wacky schemes. Pippi amuses them during their be-measled quarentine; she later invites them to accompany her on a cruise to the South Seas to recover their lost color and share her vacation. They have delightful adventures on the island; the only down side of this prolonged excursion is that they miss Christmas and therefore --no presents! But Pippi makes it up to them in her own, inimitable fashion upon their return; she proves a loyal friend and a great hostess... This book should appeal to most children who can read it for themselves, as well as kids who enjoy an active imaginati! on and a world where kids can outsmart adults! Peter Pan-like Pippi urges her friends to eat some magic peas so that they WON'T have to grow up. Even if the peas don't work for the neighbors, we somehow feel that Pippi will remain the eternal symbol of carefree childhood.
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