From the Archives: Pippi Longstocking Goes to War

(Okay, I admit it.  That’s an inaccurate, click-bait of a title.) In every book I write I reach the point where I am so deep in the work that I have to stop writing blog posts and newsletters. I always hope to avoid it. That somehow I’ll be smarter, or faster, or more organized, or…

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Pippi Longstocking Goes to War

(Okay, I admit it.  That’s an inaccurate, click-bait of a title.) Today Astrid Lindgren is famous as the creator of Pippi Longstocking:  the red-headed quirky rebel who proclaimed herself the strongest girl in the world.*  In World War II, Lindgren was a 30-something housewife and aspiring author.  Her war diaries, published posthumously in Sweden and…

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