Lindgren, Astrid

Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village.

A tomten shares his porridge with a hungry fox, who has come in search of food to the farm the tomten protects at night.

Tommy and Annika are fascinated by their new neighbor, an unusual little girl who lives all alone with her horse and monkey, performs her own act at the circus, bakes cookies on the floor, and is stronger than anyone in the world.

After visiting their grandmother and hearing a ghost story, a brother and sister take a scary walk through the woods.

On a cold, snowy night, a Swedish troll walks around a farm comforting the animals with the promise that spring will come.

The adventures of the strongest girl in the world, who takes her two friends with her when she travels from Sweden to visit her father, king of an island in the South Seas.

Ronia, who lives with her father and his band of robbers in a castle in the woods, causes trouble when she befriends the son of a rival robber chieftain.

The noisy children of three neighboring families have a gay time at Christmas baking cookies, cutting and decorating trees, eating fruitcake and tarts, and opening Christmas gifts.

When her friends Tommy and Annika decide to run away from home, Pippi Longstocking goes along to keep an eye on them.

Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village.