A long forgotten Pippi Longstocking story, printed in 1949 in a children’s magazine, was rediscovered by Lena Toernqvist, secretary of the Astrid Lindgren Society. The short tale tells of a visit by Pippi to cheer up three children who are facing a dreary Christmas. No one in the Lindgren family had heard of the story either. Toernqvist had been preparing for an exhibition of illustrations from Lindgren’s books when she happened across it.