LINDGREN,A.:PIPPI GOES TO SCHOOL

Pippi Longstocking's long red braids are the very image of childhood rebellion. In Pippi Goes to School, our heroine's insurrectionary spirit is hardly dampened by her first taste of academe. Her friends Tommy and Annika head off bright and early at 8 a.m., "hand in hand, swinging their schoolbags." Pippi can't be bothered to get going until a little later: "At exactly ten o'clock she lifted her horse off the front porch, and a little later all the people in the town ran to their windows to...

In this great introduction for young children to the wacky, wonderful world of Pippi Longstocking, Pippi shows that she has her own special ways of doing things--even going to school. Color illustrations throughout.