Pippi in a Shipwreck
Village: Villa Villekulla
In the kitchen, Pippi is making pepparkakor, a type of Swedish cookies.
She made the dough and rolled it up nice and flat, then she got two cookie shapers and started making cookies out of the dough.
Then, Tommy and Annika came into the kitchen.
"What are you making, Pippi?" Tommy asked.
"I'm making cookies." Pippi said. "And they should be ready for the oven."
Later, as the cookies were done baking and cooled down, the children enjoyed a snack.
"Well that was delicious." Pippi said. "But I don't have time to sit and be lazy, after all, I am a Thing-Finder."
"What's a Thing-Finder?" Annika asked.
"Someone who finds things, who else?" Pippi replied. "There are many things, just waiting to be found, and I'm gonna find them."
Village: Woods
The kids went outside, where they began Thing-Finding.
"What do you suppose we'll find?" Tommy asked.
"Who knows. Lumps of gold, a tiny screw, well, just about anything." Pippi said, and then she found something. "What a find! What a find."
"What is it?" Tommy asked.
"A rusty tin can." Pippi replied.
"What good is that?" Annika asked.
"I could take it home and use it as a cookie jar." Pippi said, and then she noticed the hole at the bottom of the can. "Or maybe it'll be a cookie-less jar, but we won't know until I try."
The children continued Thing-Finding, when they came across a sleeping man.
"What a find! I found that man. So I'll take him." Pippi said.
"No, Pippi. We can't just take a person." Annika said. "And besides, what would we even want with him?"
"We could put him in a pet carrier and feed him dandelions." Pippi said. "But if you don't want to, I guess we'll just leave him there, though I do worry that someone else might get him."
The children continued on, and then, they found an old rowboat.
"What a find! What a find! My best find yet." Pippi said as she went and picked up the boat.
"What are we gonna do with an old boat?" Tommy asked.
"We could fix it up and go rowing on it." Pippi said, and that got Tommy and Annika excited.
Village: Villa Villekulla
The kids brought the boat over to Villa Villekulla and started fixing it by patching up the holes, and painting the hull with tar.
"There, and as soon as the tar dries, it'll be ready to float again." Pippi said.
"But where are gonna go?" Annika asked.
"Well, there's an island in the lake, and I already wasted time not going there." Pippi said.
Later, the tar dries, and the kids take the boat to the lake.
Woods: Lake
The kids, Mr. Nilsson, and Buster all arrive on the lake.
"Okay. Let's review what we got." Pippi said. "A picnic basket, tools, and a treasure map."
"But you've never been to the island." Annika said. "And besides, it's blank."
"That's because I'm making my own treasure map." Pippi said. "You wouldn't want to explore an island that you've never gone before and not make a treasure map, would you?"
And soon, the kids, Mr. Nilsson, and Buster get on the boat and head to the island.
However, as they get closer to the island, rough waves start forming.
"Whoa, the waves are starting to get wild!" Annika said.
And then, a big wave carries the boat and sends it towards the island.
As the boat got near the island, the boat capsizes and sinks due to the waves, but the children, Mr. Nilsson, and Buster managed to make it to the island.
Lake: Island
"Excellent. One of my best shipwrecks yet." Pippi said as she sat on the shore of the island.
"But Pippi, we can't be stranded!" Annika said.
"Oh, yes we can! I've been shipwrecked before, so I have experience." Pippi said. "But in the meantime, let's explore the island."
The kids and the animals came across a rock, upon which they had a picnic.
Pippi had packed sandwiches, pancakes, and sausages.
After the picnic, Pippi wanted to see if she could fly.
"I wonder if it's hard to fly." Pippi said and went over to a nearby cliff, which was steep and high above the ground.
"Pippi, don't try it! You can't fly!" Annika said.
"You'd never know until I try." Pippi said and she jumped, on the way down, she repeatedly flapped her arms like wings, but she didn't fly, then she hit the ground with a thud.
"Pippi!" Tommy and Annika said as they looked down the cliff to see Pippi completely fine.
"I can do a lot of things, but I guess flying is just not one of them." Pippi said, and she climbed up the cliff.
Then the kids noticed that Mr. Nilsson was missing.
"MR. NILSSON! WHERE ARE YOU!?" Pippi shouted from the top of her lungs, but she heard no response.
"Where could have he gone?" Annika asked.
"He's always doing this." Pippi said. "This is just like that time in China, he ran away to join a group of monks."
"Is that true?" Annika asked.
"No, it's a lie, of course." Pippi replied. "Anyway, I hope we can find him."
"Why don't we form a search party?" Tommy suggested.
"Excellent idea." Pippi said. "Tommy, why don't you go that way? Annika, Buster, and I will search this way.
The children and Buster split to look for Mr. Nilsson.
Tommy looks Mr. Nilsson, but he encounters an angry bull.
As Tommy tries to back away, the bull gets ready to charge and comes after Tommy.
Meanwhile, Pippi, Annika, and Buster are searching along a path, when they hear Tommy yelling for help.
"HELP!' Tommy's voice shouted.
"That sounded like Tommy." Annika said, and the girls ran towards Tommy.
The bull is still chasing after Tommy.
"Oh good. Tag." Pippi said and ran towards the bull, and stopped him with just one hand. "Now you better behave and learn to play nice."
However, this only aggravated the bull even more, and he was determined to make Pippi pay.
The bull charged at Pippi, but she instead jumped on his back and started riding him.
The bull desperately tried to shake Pippi off, but she wouldn't budge, and finally, the bull got tired and he collapsed.
"Now that's what I call a rodeo." Pippi said as she got off the bull. "Now, let's go back to looking for Mr. Nilsson."
The kids continued to search, and finally, they found him up on a pine tree.
"Well, look who finally showed up." Pippi said. "You know, I think this island is exciting, but I think it's about time to get going now."
"But how do we get back home?" Tommy asked. "The boat is lost."
"Don't worry, just leave that to me." Pippi said.
At the same shore where they ended up on the island, Pippi dived under the water, and soon she resurfaced with the boat, which was good enough for one more ride.
The children and Mr. Nilsson got on the boat while Buster swam, and soon, they were all back on dry land.
Village: Villa Villekulla
Later, at Villa Villekulla, Pippi added a pin to a map of the world, which already had several pins on it.
"What's that map for, Pippi?" Annika asked.
"It's my shipwreck map, of course." Pippi said. "Before today, I've already been shipwrecked on many islands. And that's the one from today."
"Well, I think one shipwreck is enough for me." Tommy said.
"True, but one day, I'm gonna be in shipwrecks all over the world." Pippi said as she turned to her map.
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