For the last couple weeks, Anna has been absolutely addicted to the Pippi Longstocking books, even to the point of giving up her usual “happy things” and daily review to have extra time to read Pippi. It seems that we’ve read “Pippi Goes On Board” a least four or five times cover to cover (Anna bookmarks it in between sessions), and it probably takes two hours to read the whole thing once. Some of the material seems a bit mature for her ears: cannibals, firearms, and of course Pippi herself is an uneducated rich girl who lives with a horse and a monkey¹.

Jen heard from a german friend that Astrid Lindgren’s books are very popular in Germany, and more of them have been translated from Swedish to German than to English. Perhaps we’ll have to dig up some of the German versions for Jen to read to Anna. Although Anna takes Spanish lessons at school, I don’t practice with her at home; we haven’t even begin to take advantage of Jennifer’s fluency in German.

¹ Perhaps she could be considered the Paris Hilton of her time.