Astrid Lindgren, Puffin Audiobooks, 2000
Pippi is a great character; strong, independent, funny, adventurous and irrepressible. She obeys no conventions. Well, what could be expected after a life at sea with a father who is a pirate king and a mother who is an angel. Both parents are absent. Pippi lives with Mr Nelson, a monkey, and a horse in a large house with no rules, no school, no manners. Such fruitful freedom. The neighbour's two children act as the straight guys to Pippi's zaniness. Her adventures make me laugh out loud and Joy is captivated eventhough I'm not sure she fully understands.
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