Librarian's Note: This is an alternate cover edition to ISBN13 9780140309577.Way out at the end of a tiny little town was an old overgrown garden, and in the garden was an old house, and in the house lived Pippi Longstocking. She was nine years old, and she lived there all alone. She had no mother and no father, and that was of course very nice because there was no one to tell her to go to bed just when she was having the most fun, and no one who could make her take cod liver oil when she much preferred caramel candy."An absurd and rollicking story of Pippi who lives without any grown ups in a little house at the edge of the village. Not that she lives alone--Mr. Nilsson, the monkey, and Horse live there too, and Tommy and Annika from next door spend as much time with her as possible. And who wouldn't, for with Pippi around you just never can tell what may happen next. The matter-of-fact way in which her absurd adventures are related is one of the chief charms of this story, full of the kind of hilarity that appeals to children."--Horn BookDescription taken from the 1997 paperback edition.