Status Updates From Astrid Lindgren - Vildtorin...

"People's feeling, people's love, or lack of love, relationships between children and grown-ups, all these mean much more to me than anything else." (From a letter AL wrote in 1975)

"Is [Pippi Longstocking] perhaps Annika's shadow -- the female figure of fantasy, and compensating character, that every girl secretly keeps by her side and listens to -- she who dares everything and manages everything -- this Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshake Mackrelmint Ephraimsdaughter Longstocking?"

And now I am at the Pippi parts!

Speaking of her love of Anne of Green Gables as a girl: "Oh, you unforgettable one, you ride forever in the gig beside Matthew Cuthbert under the blossoming apple tree at Avonlea! How I lived with that girl! One whole summer my sisters and I played at Anne of Green Gables in the big heap of sawdust up at the sawmill; I was Diana Barry, and the puddle by the midden behind the byre was the dark, reflecting wave."