Pippi is red-haired, freckled, unconventional and superhumanly strong – able to lift her horse one-handed.
Pippi was named by Lindgren's daughter Karin, who asked her mother for a get-well story when she was off school. Pippi Longstocking ( Swedish: Pippi Långstrump) is the fictional main character in an eponymous series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. Pippi Longstocking as illustrated by Ingrid Vang Nyman on the Swedish cover of Pippi Goes On Board
