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Pippi in the South Seas

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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.

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!

Pippi Longstocking is one of the most delightful characters to ever appear in children's books. She is a small girl with pigtails who is the only human living in her house. Her father is the king of the Pacific island of Kurrekurredutt and she lives with her animals. She has pigtails, freckles and is incredibly strong. Tommy and Annika are her friends whose parents let her play with Pippi all the time.

Some people may consider the Pippi books to be inappropriate for children, since Pippi does not go to school and lives a carefree life of perpetual childhood. I don't agree with this opinion, the book is fantasy and Pippi is so full of non sequiters when she speaks that the book is clearly not to be taken seriously.

In this story, Pippi's father arrives to take Pippi to visit his kingdom of Kurrekurredutt. Tommy and Annika go with her and they have many great adventures. Pearls are plentiful in the waters around the island and the children have no trouble finding enough to play games of marbles. Two evil men land on the island and try to steal the pearls away. Pippi simply throws the men out onto the rocks and then into the sea, where they swim to their boat and are never heard from again.

The book is loaded with metaphors for the relationship between children and adults. Pippi simply deals with each situation with an adult by performing double-talk or changing the subject. This naturally annoys the adults, but is a natural turnaround for children. The reasons adults give to children when explaining what is happening often appears as double-talk, so this is just a reversal of roles.

I enjoyed this book immensely, reading it as a fantasy where a child remains a child, and talks strangely to adults. To children, that is often what adults seem to be doing to them.

This is my favorite Pippi Longstocking book because it takes Pippi from her home at Villa Villekulla into the exciting world of beaches, huts, cannibals, robbers, and pearls of the South Pacific! Over the years, some have complained that Mrs. Lindgren wrote the "cannibals" as being black, but believe me, she meant nothing by it. Her use of the word cannibal is only in a funny and exciting sense, not that they actually eat people. I can assure you that you won't find any part of the book offensive.

Pippi In the South Seas continues the funny adventures of Pippi Longstocking. Most of the action in this fun filled sequel takes place on the island Kurrekurredutt. One day Pippi found a note in a bottle which said not to worry that her father will return on his ship the Hoptoad to bring her back to the island. This was sad for Pippi's friends Tommy and Annika, so they went along. When they all got to the island, Pippi was made Cannibal Princess. The exciting things that happen to them on the island make it hard for them to leave, but they return home to a late Christmas celebration.

I truly loved the creativity and humor from the beginning to the end of Pippi in the South Seas by Astrid Lindgren. This story, about an irresistible girl with two red pony tails and lots of freckles, takes the reader on voyage to the exciting island of Kurrekurredutt. I especially liked Pippi's loyalty to her friends, her imagination, charm, and wit. This story of wonder teaches children and adults to always help others and keep imagining. Undoubtedly, the PACES PAideia Study Guide for this book helped me understand the story better. The Parent Questions and Homework Questions in the Study Guide gave my mother and me good ideas to talk about. The Journals made me write about Pippi in my own words. As an eleven year old, I found this book extremely entertaining.

I give this book 5 stars because it is interesting, funny, and silly.

My favorite character was Pippi because she is silly and crazy. My favorite part was when Pippi and her friends were playing marbles in a cave. They were using pearls as their marbles. Two thieves came and tried to steal the pearls from the cave. Pippi thought they wanted to use them for marbles too so she told them to go to a store to get real marbles!

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes being silly.

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.

Pippi in the South Seas is a great book. You should read it sometime. The character's names are: Pippi Longstocking, a boy named Tommy, a girl named Annika, and Pippi's dad "Fat White Chief". The main character is Pippi Longstocking. She is very crazy. She is very strong too.

The story is about Pippi, Annika, and Tommy going to an island because Pippi's dad is a sailor. The island is called Kurrekurredutt Island. Pippi and her friends go to the island and have an adventure. Tommy went in the water and found a shark swimming near him! The shark scraped his teeth against Tommy's leg! Pippi threw the shark in the air and the shark went back in the water.

We really enjoyed reading this book and think you would too.

Tape was a disappointment scratchy and understood it was DVD which of course it was not the discription was too vague. So $56NZD was poorly spent.