How Pippi Longstocking Came into the World. A must-have for all Lindgren fans! This book contains the original Pippi manuscript that Astrid Lindgren offered to the Bonnier publishing house in 1944, which was rejected at the time. In a detailed commentary, literary scholar Ulla Lundqvist explores the history of the book's creation, which was published for the first time in 1945 in Sweden by Rabén & Sjögren after a fundamental revision. She compares the original manuscript with the later book and focuses particularly on aspects such as deletions, changes, or softening. The reader learns that the Pippi in the version known today is portrayed as much warmer and kinder than in the original manuscript. The author herself removed and altered overly absurd elements, and some nonsensical songs also fell victim to the red pen. - Original manuscript from 1944.