Pippi Longstocking Timeline and Summary

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• Pippi leaves her father's ship when it comes into port and, since Dad went overboard, takes up residence at Villa Villekulla, the house he bought for his retirement years.
• Pippi meets her neighbors, Tommy and Annika. She tells them a bunch of lies and has them over for pancakes. They become fast friends.
• During their first adventure together, thing-finding, Pippi finds a tin can, an empty spool of thread, and a bully. She dispatches the bully and helps her friends find things of their own.
• Policemen visit Villa Villekulla in an attempt to help Pippi by placing her in a children's home—Pippi instead helps the policemen by engaging them in a game of tag and dumping them on her sidewalk.
• Tommy and Annika convince Pippi to give school a try. Pippi arrives late, puts the teacher on edge, eventually gains the teacher's sympathy, and leaves early. On horseback. She never returns.
• After telling tall tales to a passing stranger (a little girl in search of her father), Pippi convinces the ever-willing Tommy and the ever-reluctant Annika to have a coffee party in a hollow tree, which they then climb inside. Secret forts = cool.
• On a picnic, Pippi wrestles a bull into submission, breaking off both its horns in the process. Ouch.
• When the circus comes to town, Pippi rides the horses, walks the tightrope, and defeats the strongman, much to the crowd's delight and the ringmaster's dismay.
• Two burglars enter Villa Villekulla when they think Pippi's asleep and attempt to steal her gold. Pippi puts them in their place (atop the wardrobe) and encourages them to entertain her with dancing and music, after which she rewards them with food, drink, and a piece of gold each.
• When invited to a coffee party at the Settergrens' house, Pippi worries about her ability to behave. Her worries turn out to be completely justified as she offends all the ladies in attendance and is told to "never come here again" by the hostess.
• On her own for the day when Tommy and Annika are away, Pippi amuses herself around the house for a while then rides into town and saves two little boys from a burning building. The townspeople cheer.
• Pippi celebrates her birthday with Tommy and Annika and triumphantly declares that she's going to be a pirate when she grows up.