Pippi Longstocking Christmas story found

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- A little-known Christmas story from the Pippi Longstocking series was rediscovered in a library nearly a year after the death of its author, Astrid Lindgren.

"I found this little story by chance some weeks ago," Lena Toernqvist, secretary of the Astrid Lindgren Society and a librarian at Stockholm's Royal Library.

Toernqvist found the one-page story, "Pippi Longstocking Celebrates Christmas," while working on an exhibition of illustrations to Lindgren's books.

"I had never heard about this story before, despite having worked for the association for 30 years and neither had any member of Lindgren's family," she said Tuesday.

Lindgren, who died Jan. 28 at age 94, wrote novels, short stories, plays, song books and poetry.