Pippi's After-Christmas Party (Pippi Longstocking)
Ages 5^-7. When Pippi Longstocking throws an after-Christmas party one night, the children delight in Pippi's way of celebrating: they gather in an igloo, stuff themselves with hot chocolate and cream cakes, and go sledding off the roof of Villa Villekulla. Pippi welcomes a new boy in town, adopts a lonely dog, and wards off a greedy old neighbor, but there's not much plot here, just an episodic story that's rather long for a picture book. It's hard to say what young children will make of it, but this has a place in larger collections, where Pippi's younger fans may enjoy it as a holiday treat.Carolyn Phelan--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.