Pippi Goes to School
- Tommy and Annika decide school would be much more fun with Pippi there and set about trying to persuade her to come with them one day.
- Pippi is convinced to join them when she realizes that they, in attending school, get Christmas vacation, which she, by not attending school, does not. (You gotta love Pippi's logic.)
- The next day, Pippi rides her horse to school—on her own timetable, of course, arriving after 10:00AM.
- The teacher welcomes Pippi, but has trouble… um, engaging her in her studies, so to speak.
- When asked what seven and five are, Pippi replies, "Well if you don't know that yourself, you needn't think I'm going to tell you." (An answer we bet many a student has wanted to give.)
- Things escalate from there, with the teacher trying every subject and tactic she can think of to no avail.
- When asked to draw, for instance, Pippi fills her paper and resorts to drawing on the floor. (She couldn't have fit her whole horse on her paper, anyway.)
- At singing time, Pippi decides to take a nap, at which point the teacher dismisses the class so she can talk to Pippi alone.
- Pippi is surprised to find that the teacher thinks she has behaved badly, but the teacher softens when Pippi explains that it's hard for a girl who has sailed on the ocean her whole life and whose mother is an angel and whose father is a cannibal king to know how to behave in school.
- The teacher suggests that perhaps Pippi should try school again… when she's older, and Pippi smiles and gives her a gold watch.
- Before riding home on her horse, Pippi tells all the children in the schoolyard tales of school in Argentina, where according to Pippi, school is only in session for about two weeks of the year and there are no lessons.