New Releases by Astrid Lindgren

Peter thinks baby sister Lena cries too much and takes too much of Mama''s time until he learns to help take care of her.

When Pippi’s father, the king, sends for her, she decides to take her best friends Tommy and Annika with her to Kurrekurredutt Island. The island is fantastic and Pippi has one crazy adventure after another! Pippi is even made a princess---Princess Pippilotta. But will Pippi and her friends really want to live on the island forever, never to return to Villa Villekulla? "Any reappearance of the irrepressible Pippi Longstocking is cause for celebration. This installment is no exception." -The New York Times

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

Two brothers share many adventures after their death when they are reunited in Nangiyala, the land where sagas come from.

Midge is the youngest in his family and he often feels that no one really understands him. But everything changes the evening Karlson flies in through Midge''s open window. Karlson is a chubby little man with a propeller on his back, the world''s Best Karlson full of jokes and tricks, and he lives in a small house high up on the rooftops. Midge has never had a better companion. That is, until something special happens on his birthday...

Five-year-old Emil finds his mischief becoming worse and his punishments more bearable after he has Piggy-Beast to share them with.

The adventures of a seven-year-old boy and an extraordinary little man who wears a flying machine on his back.

Five-year-old Emil, who lives on a Swedish farm, is constantly in trouble.

A collection of stories from two books already published, about the activities of young children in a Swedish village.

Five-year-old Lotta certainly isn''t going to sit quietly on her own in her room when the whole world seems against her.

Life in their rented summer cottage on Seacrow Island is sometimes happy, sometimes exciting, and sometimes tragic, but never uneventful for a Swedish author, his three sons, and nineteen-year-old daughter.

Anything can happen at the Marten''s house - causing constant delight and panic for everyone concerned. Astrid Lindgren is the author of Cherry Time at Bullerby and Lotta Leaves Home.

One chilly evening on a remote Swedish farm, the tomten keeps a hungry fox from his dinner in the hen house and sends him on his way.

When the Nyman children are around, anything can happen--Jonas, Maria and Lotta are their names--but their father calls them Big Noise, Little Noise, and Little Nut.

After running away from the orphanage, nine-year-old Rasmus finds the outside world cold and unfriendly until he meets "Paradise Oscar" who helps him find a new home.