Astrid Lindgren

Escapades of Pippi Longstocking, the strongest girl in the world, who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--in a villa at the edge of a Swedish village.

Pippi Longstocking has no parents around and no rules to follow. She's been treating her friends Tommy and Annika to wild adventures, too, like buying and eating seventy-two pounds of candy, or sailing off to an island in the middle of a lake to see what it's like to be shipwrecked. But then Pippi's long lost father returns, and she might have to leave Villa Villekulla.

Ronia, who lives with her father and his band of robbers in a castle in the woods, causes trouble when she befriends the son of a rival robber chieftain.

In 'Pippi Longstocking,' a high spirited little girl lives every child's fantasy: escape from parental rules. In 'Kim,' a boy named Kim must go undercover as a spy to stop the war in colonial India.