Pippi Longstocking

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pippi Longstocking (Swedish Pippi LÃ¥ngstrump) is a fictional character in a series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, and adapted into multiple films and television series. Pippi was named by Lindgren's then nine-year-old daughter, Karin, who requested a get-well story from her mother one day when she was home sick from school.