So, her mother Astrid invented a red-headed little girl with freckles and two stiff braids, whose mother is an angel and whose father is a king of the South Seas, and who lives in a house named Villa Villekulla with Mr. "Pippi Longstocking" - that was the name the girl came up with. In Sweden back in 1941, Astrid Lindgren sat beside her little daughter Karin who was sick in bed. About 8.6 million Pippi Longstocking books have been sold in Germany since 1949, from a total of about 70 million worldwide. Pippi is still very popular in Germany, according to the books' Hamburg-based publisher, Oetinger. This is not only true in English, but in each of the over 70 languages into which Pippi's adventures have been translated to date. It takes a long moment for Pippito rattle off her full name. "Allow me to introduce myself: Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Ephraim's Daughter Longstocking!" To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video
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